Tim: According to the website, these chaps “play new-wave synth-pop inspired by the 80’s and time travel”.
Tom: Which is why they’ve called it “Delorean”. Back to the Future references are so original.
Tim: In their defence, though, that song would indicate a correlation between said film and brilliant pop songs.
Tom: Incidentally, that’s the first time I’ve seen the video to “Year 3000”. Two comments: first, I can see why Charlie left, and second, they do the Busted Jump a lot, don’t they?
Tim: I miss it so much.
Tom: Anyway. What’s this track like?
Tim: Probably worth a listen.
Tim: So, you’re a musician influenced, as you claim, by time travel. You write a song called Delorean and sing about using it to go travel in aforementioned time. Do you do something decent with this time machine? Solve scientific queries, like go back and find out whether dinosaurs were hot or cold blooded? Attempt to solve religious debate by trying to get photographic evidence of the resurrection? Maybe even travel to the future, see what disasters may lie ahead and come back and warn everyone? Actually, no. You stop yourself doing something stupid that made your girlfriend dump you. You pathetic boring bastard.
Tom: You’re not thinking big enough there, Tim. Once you violate causality, then by necessity you’ve broken the second law of thermodynamics. At this point, you can reverse entropy, and can pretty much do anything. There’s a reason time travel doesn’t make sense when you stop to think about it.
Tim: Yes, but this guy claims to be properly influenced by it, so he should at least put some effort into having some decent ambitions before causing the universe as we know it to fall apart around us.
As it happens, though, I don’t much care about that, because this is a pretty good piece of electropop.
Tom: It does go on a bit, though, and the constant mentions of “Delorean” do get old very quickly.
Tim: Yeah, I’m not so keen on that, especially the time before the middle eight where it seems it’ll never end, but the main verse and chorus work great together, I think, and so overall I can cope with his lack of time travel imagination. Just.
Tim: Oh, I could never do that.