Maja Amcoff – Dopamin

“Seven writers credited on this track, and that’s the best they could come up with?”

Tim: Her follow-up to June’s debut, Alltid Som Du Vill, which we reckoned had a decent pre-chorus but a not particularly pleasant instrumental dance chorus. Is that remedied here, though?

Tim: Pleasingly: yes.

Tom: Disagreement: no. Why do you like this?

Tim: Considerably more reliant on your regular physical instruments, and when it does verge into dance beat territory, it’s pretty good – certainly vastly more listenable.

Tom: I just don’t like that instrumental. It doesn’t seem to fit with anything else I can hear – and to be honest, the rest of it doesn’t feel particularly inspiring either.

Tim: It might not fit in brilliantly, or be hugely inspiring – you’re right, there’s a slight disjoint, and there’s not much of a melody – but at least it doesn’t make me want to switch the track off.

Tom: There are seven writers credited on this track, and that’s the best they could come up with?

Tim: I suppose that’s a fair point, but I’ll still happily listen to it a good few times, as there’s nothing else to really complain about. I’ll call it a reassuring follow-up.