Tim: We featured this Finnish band a couple of times last year and were thoroughly impressed with their synth/rock blend; here’s their latest (with strong language at the start).
Tim: Now, the problem I have here is that if the first track you come across by a band is absolutely brilliant, it becomes near impossible to judge the next few tracks with any sort of objectivity, because you’re almost certainly going to be disappointed. Here, this is exactly the case.
Tom: Oh wow, I’m so relieved. I am incredibly relieved. This is the third song that you’ve sent me this week where I’ve just gone “meh”. I was starting to think I’m burned out. But here, at least, there actually some good things I like about it: basically everything from the middle eight onwards, when it actually starts to kick in at last.
Tim: Interesting, because I have a different view. Don’t get me wrong, I still like it, and there are a whole lot of good things in there – the vocal pre-chorus and the early middle eight, with his voice calm and the euphoric build in that background, is fantastic, and I wouldn’t change a moment of it. The verses are perfectly decent, no problems there, nor with the main chorus. But the post-chorus is upsettingly just a bit of a racket.
Tom: No, I’m good with having some distortion there. It’s properly applied, for once.
Tim: Huh – sems we have the opposite viewpoint then – you like it when it gets loud, whereas I’m slightly turned off at that point. It’s a great melody, I’ll grant you, but way too loud, and I think it spoils it a bit. And that’s a real shame, knowing how great they can be. Weird feeling, really – to like a track but be rather disappointed by it as well.