Tag: Meow

Meow – Nobody

“A bit Owl City-ish”

Tim: Remember these guys from a couple of months back? Well, here’s their new one.

https://soundcloud.com/meow-uk/nobody

Tom: Huh. All the arpeggiated noodling-about in the background is a bit Owl City-ish (and the “good time” helps with that too).

Tim: Hmm, you’re not wrong there. Turns out we’ve not moved on from piano dance music like I thought we had, but if it currently sounds like that I’m very happy for it to hang around a bit longer, because it’s just great. The pounding bassline through the chorus stands out as being particularly nice, as does the melody in general.

Tom: You’re right about that, although good grief, is that ever over-compressed. That pounding bassline makes everything else in the track go silent to a ridiculous extent — it’s almost as if everything else keeps dropping out. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that effect so strongly.

Tim: Then let’s have the “I don’t need nobody to have a good time” as a nice and somewhat solitary anthem for the time being. I could jump around to this in my room for a long time, and I’d be happy to. Because I DON’T NEED YOU. LEAVE ME ALONE, I’M HAVING FUN.

Tom: Well, how rude.

Meow – Radio Silence

“Nice track, this.”

Tim: Half British and half Norwegian, this is a new electropop duo with an utterly ridiculous name.

https://soundcloud.com/meow-uk/radio-silence

Tim: Nice track, this, not least for that chorus, with it’s fairly determined earworm hook in it which is refusing to go anywhere and the second half of it which is really very very good indeed.

Tom: Agreed: that chorus comes out of nowhere, and while it it isn’t a match for the rest of the song, I think the clash works.

Tim: It’s got a weird mix of mood in it – I’m not sure if I’m meant to hear it this way, but while its obviously a fairly downbeat track for the most part, that “radio radio radio” seems like a sudden glint of happiness in the middle. Sticks out a bit, but not in a bad way, I don’t think, because it’s an excuse to just yell out that bit and get everyone in the train carriage to look at you (which may or may not just have happened).

Tom: There are worse songs to be singing along to. At least no-one joined in.

Tim: And in the end, if a song can make you sing along involuntarily, I think that’s a pretty good song. Though not always.

Tom: Crikey, there’s a blast from the past. One of the few songs on that album where it’s difficult to tell it apart from the original.

Tim: WHAT A TUNE.