Tag: Danny Rossing

Danny Rossing – Remember

“What a summer track it is.”

Tim: As I’m writing this, I’m lying by a swimming pool with the sun blazing down on me and my skin’s in danger of turning bright red. This is an excellent accompaniment.

Tom: It’s cloudy here and I’m sneezing thanks to hay fever. I get the feeling I won’t be so optimistic.

Tom: Oh, I take it back. That’s lovely.

Tim: Isn’t it? What a summer track it is. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t entirely appreciating them until now, when it’s actually summery.

Tom: Even without the sun, this is really good: even that clicky, stuttery break works for me, and that’s odd: normally, I’d find it gimmicky. The combination of ballad-type vocals and staccato synth and percussion complement each other far better than I’d have thought.

Tim: There’s also that middle eight that sticks out in either a ‘wait what’s going on’ way or an ‘ooh, this is great’ way, and for me it’s the latter. Yes, it kind of breaks the track, but I think it’s in a good way. Basically, I think this is a great tune, and his decent vocals on top only help that.

Danny Rossing – Terrified

“A pretty good pop song”

Tim: This is is the sort of lyric video you get when your designer (a) doesn’t realise there are exceptions to the rule “ultra-light text is the way forward” and (b) can’t count the number of times you sing “na”. YOU’RE WELCOME.

Tom: Oh, man, that is infuriating.

Tim: So, stock footage from various cities around the world, with apparent product placement for, of all things, a Broadway musical; throw in some scenic shots as well, plenty of illegible and incorrect text and you’ve got yourself a cheap lyric video.

Tom: What you’ve got, there, is an almost-competent designer that — I’d guess — never sat back and took a look at the big-picture of what the video looked like.

Tim: You’ve also got, it seems, a pretty good pop song that stands up very well to multiple listens, with a couple of decent hooks, a nice amount of brass here and there.

Tom: Now, perhaps it’s the repetition of the music video’s clips, but I found that it went on for a bit too long, even at three and a half minute.

Tim: The damp patch at the start of the middle eight is, like many damp patches, a bit of a pain but not too much bother really, so all in, this is a damn good track.

Tom: Whoa, hold on, the start of the middle eight? That piano break is wonderful, and a welcome change of pace: but the second part, the return to normality, it just unnecessary. You’re really calling that first bit a “damp patch”?

Tim: Well, yes, because what I really like about this is the vibrancy and the energy that’s around. I get your point about it being wonderful, because it is lovely but it just seems somewhat out of place.

It also, of course, provides an excellent opportunity for a sci-fi rom-com soundtrack, simply by pretending he’s actually singing “erasing” rather than “a race in”. Again, YOU’RE WELCOME.