Tim: Concluding our review of this lot’s Mess Without You on Tuesday, I remarked I wanted to hear more. Well, here’s more – their previous track, from back in May.
Tim: And, to quote that wonderful Saturdays song, I just can’t get enough.
Tom: That’s wasn’t… you know what, their version was better, I can live with it.
Tim: It so was.
Tom: I can also live with this song: that’s one of the best introductions and first verses I’ve heard in a long while.
Tim: Isn’t it? Admittedly, lyrically it could be describe as a bit wanting, but on the other hand that single call and refrain repeated so many times is so effective with the build underneath it up to the thumping, beating chorus. We get so many songs of the “we’re young, we can do anything we want” variety, yet I can’t remember it ever being drilled in so definitively or maturely – a weird description perhaps, especially as I’m not quite sure how I mean it, but it’s one that springs to mind.
Tom: It is a really, really effective build. We’re seeing more and more songs that effectively have two choruses, and this is one of them.
Tim: And returning to that thumping, beating chorus: I like it a lot. It teeters on the edge of the boom-wherp thing–
Tom: “Overcompression” is the term, but yes. It’s close, but not quite enough to hurt. I can live with it.
Tim: Me too, because here the song knows exactly how not to do it badly, and how to make it sound good instead. On Tuesday, I had just one complaint, which wasn’t even really a complaint. Today: I got nothing. There is nothing I want from this song that isn’t already there.
Oh, and also, nothing to do with the music, but at the bottom of the video description: “Youngwildblood by Runaway Zoo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” How often does that happen?
Tom: For anything that isn’t stock music? Very, very rarely.