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Right, I promise, I shall now evaluate the song on its own merits with no further mention of the artist's name or the song title unless strictly necessary, honest. Which is difficult, because I don't really know what to make of this. It's hyperactive in the way that early singles often are, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's quite hard to process what's going on because each lyrical thought is expressed and dismissed within a matter of seconds, and we just move right on to the next.

And the ones that do linger in the brain are the ones that sound slightly creepy out of context, such as "Sweat. Sweat on lips on lips on lips on sweat on back", which sounds like the sort of line you'd expect to hear more at a fringe theatre than in a pop song.

There's quite a sweet vulnerability to the song, though, and the non-sequiturs in the lyrics are surprisingly effective at evoking the mental gymnastics of romantic paranoia, assuming that's what they're aiming for. The band are obviously trying to carve out their own specific sound here, and I think they've done a pretty good job of it, but I get the sense that there's a great 3:30 pop song here being squeezed into an overly busy 2:40. Sometimes it's helpful to look at a song in terms of what the one sentence you would use to respond to it would be, and in this case mine would be along the lines of "yes, but CALM DOWN".

Not the song of song that I'd recommend for those who are easily overexcited, then, but there's definite potential here. If they can gradually replace the nervous energy with musical confidence, they could really be onto something.

Download: Out now
CD Released: February 18th

(Steve Perkins)