Tim: We’ve featured Amy Macdonald once before, when you said you thought she was Swedish based her voice and music; I thought that too with this one, but nope, turns out she’s just as Scottish as she was in 2012.
Tim: And that’s quite a ballad. As it landed on my new music playlist, I wondered what was going on, because it does take some time before much happens. But when it does, as it grows, well that really makes it worth listening to.
Tom: I’ll be honest with you: about half way through the first verse, I tabbed away and got distracted by other things on the internet. It wasn’t until the first chorus that I realised, hang on, this is actually quite good.
Tim: And that actually doesn’t surprise me, because it does take a while. What I particularly like here, though, is that in so, so many similar songs we’d have a drop down after the first chorus and start again with the building, but here there’s no sign of that – we keep the string backing we’ve earned along the way, and keep growing.
Tom: And there’s a lot to be said for that as a style, particularly with a chorus like this one.
Tim: Yes, there’s no big drop, and yes, it could get going a little bit sooner. But it’s a bit like that video of the cockatoos: it just keeps getting better throughout, and I like that.