Tim: Here’s one that got e-mailed to us, by an American synthpop guy; the video was described in the e-mail as “LOL-tastic” so there you go.
Tom: Wow, that’s pretty high on the list of “words that’ll turn me against something before I’ve seen it”.
Tim: Me too, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway.
Tim: And that’s that. Not sure I’d go with entirely “LOL-tastic”, but I do get the idea and more importantly I like the music.
Tom: Really? Because I don’t. It’s like someone trying to do the Divine Comedy and Frank Sidebottom at the same time and missing terribly.
Tim: Oh. See, the way I see it, it’s got a good chorus hook to it, and one that, by the end of the song has almost got me swaying as I’m typing this; a decent enough sign, I reckon. The verses aren’t hugely interesting, and occasionally seem a tad dreary, but the middle eight I do like, with the interesting musical base underneath the singing and the extended plain instrumental. Basically, I’ll take it.
Tom: The middle eight’s the only bit that stuck out for me, but other than that: I’d class it as “a good effort, but not a pop song yet”.
Tim: His debut album, First World Problems, is out now and is “concerned with fame and the artistic process, born of frustration, delivered as a joke, but with the truth lurking underneath”, so that sounds fun doesn’t it.
Tom: It sounds like something.