Tim: Hot Shade, Swedish producer and apparent pan pipe enthusiast. Nomi Bontegard, similarly Swedish singer whose instrumental preferences are currently unknown.
Tom: All the way through the intro and first verse, I was thinking: this is good, I hope the chorus lives up to it. And then. And then.
Tim: It took me a while to work out exactly what it was about that I really liked, and then it hit me: it’s Alan Walker.
Tom: I… huh? How? I’m not sure Alan Walker ever sounded like he came from South America.
Tim: Those staccato notes underneath the early parts of her verses are straight out of his playbook, and in the second part of them when everything steps up a notch, I’m wondering how it took me so long to realise.
Tom: That’s fair, and that’s probably why I like the verses so much. It’s a good style to take inspiration from.
Tim: As with all of his songs, I think this is great – the pan pipes are a bit weird, but I think that’s only because no-one’s ever thought to use them before…but they seem to just work. Work nicely, in fact.
Tom: I cannot overstate how wrong you are.