Tim: I can think of some very positive comparisons that I could pay this ballad, but I’ll let you hear it first.
Tom: Ooh, Marion Raven! Arguably best known over here for her collaboration with Meat Loaf. Her vocals generally sound like they just came out of the 90s — but a really good bit of the 90s.
Tim: For me, this has elements and echoes of ballads from the lates and greats of S Club 7 and Steps, and even, particularly around that “I wish I could push past”, an ABBA ballad or two.
Tom: Yep. And I think part of that is the timbre of her voice, or perhaps even the microphone it’s recorded with.
Tim: I don’t want to go properly off on one here, because it’s not perfect – the middle eight could do with a bit of work with ideally an added vocal rather than just an extra instrument or two – but that chorus is just wonderful, and the verses don’t exactly let the side down.
Tom: True. I don’t think it’s ever going to crack the top 10 — it’s a bit too traditional for that — but it’s certainly a pleasant track.
Tim: Back to that S Club 7 comparison, it would fit a video set in a nice snowy forest, come to think about it, and in fact I’d like to see that quite soon please, because it’d round the song off nicely. A splendid track.