Tag: Nicky Romero

Nicky Romero & NERVO – Like Home

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Tom: Piano dance with vocals. A cracking intro. It’s going to take a long time to build. A very long time. Long enough that you’ll want it to be properly BANGING when it kicks in. And…

Tom: OH YES DOES IT DELIVER. For a few seconds. And then it stops.

Tim: I don’t know – you’ve got a decent twenty seconds in there, which is a fairly standard post-chorus, especially when you’ve got a motorbike on top of it.

Tom: I have no idea what to say about this one. It’s nearly all build, slowly edging its way towards being massive, but never staying there for nearly long enough.

Tim: I suppose you’re right – to keep people dancing it does need more.

Tom: This desperately needs a remix. It desperately needs MORE BASS.

Tim: Or just looping that last minute a couple of times.

Tom: Hell, even a dubstep breakdown would do well here – they’ve gone out of fashion again now, though. It just needs MORE.

Avicii vs Nicky Romero – I Could Be The One

“It’s not ‘feat.’, it’s ‘vs’. Because that makes it EDGY.”

Tom: Yep, it’s not “feat.”, it’s “vs”. Because that makes it EDGY. Now, before I listen to this, I’m going to make a prediction. This is genuinely written before I’ve listened to the track, incidentally.

Tim: Okay, let’s hear it.

Tom: Here goes: Avicii’s piano-pop hasn’t changed, Nicky Romero provides some meaningless vocals over the top, and it makes a pleasing piano-dance album track that’s starting to seem a bit stale. The video is some kind of road-trip type thing that vaguely reaffirms the value of life.

Tim: None of that sounds too unlikely; let’s see.

Tom: Not much more to say, really.

Tim: No – you pretty much covered all the bases. Though I would add: what sort of person puts a used condom on the table? And also, that ending actually made me laugh out loud. I’m not sure wat sort of a person that makes me.