Tim: New in the Europlop inbox, NGHT (no idea on the pronunciation of that) are a new project from some of the members of The Ark, off Eurovision and much other Swedish success.
Tom: I’m going to choose to pronounce it as a sort of strangled scream. Nghhht.
Tim: Extra guff tells that they take inspiration from New Order and The Human League, and they reckon they’ve got a Galantis-style sound. Saving the best for last, we have a new genre: Space Disco. Enjoy.
Tom: That’s not a new genre, that’s the worst excesses of the 80s. Oh dear.
Tom: Yep. Worst excesses of the 80s, repackaged for the nostalgia-heavy 10s.
Tim: Okay so first off we need to talk about those lyrics, because I don’t know what the sod they’re going on about with heads full of lead, technocolour blindness or synergy becoming the enemy.
The chorus kind of makes sense, or at least it would if this came across as a usual boy to girl song, except with stuff like spinning wheels having new deals I can’t help feeling a bit like they’re trying to redefine actual humanity.
It’s a laudable goal, I guess, since you clearly think there’s something wrong with it, but while pop music is very powerful and important, there really are better mediums to use.
Tom: They’re not so much nonsensical as anti-sensical. That’s a word, right? As for the music: I don’t know. Yes, it ticks all the boxes needed for the 80s-revival that’s going on, and that will continue to go on about every ten years from now until the heat death of the universe, but it’s not actually all that entertaining.
Tim: That aside, it’s a whole lot more of an interesting lyric video than yesterday, and musically it’s exactly what it’s setting out to be, so I’ll have it; I just can’t help feeling that they’re aiming a bit high.