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Even now, over sixteen months since its initial release, lips still pucker with ease to pipe along to the empty-headed brilliance of ‘Young Folks’. So welcome Those Dancing Days to the dancefloor, abducting a similar vein of gurning delirium as they politely introduce their heady bout of Stockholm pop.

As soon as the migraine synths settle down the act’s self-proclaimed adoration for Northern Soul seeps through to the forefront to evoke that heady summer of ’64, where everyone sat round singing Laura Greene to each other as they delved another mitt into their KFC bucket. This isn’t that summer. This is more reminiscent of ’97 sitting in the disabled parking spaces outside Somerfield working round the perils of a melting Calypso as Sixpence None The Richer blares out of a nearby Cortina.

Linnea Jönsson’s lackadaisical vocal delivery sits atop the harping track with a quilted softness rather than with the reservedly raucous soul it requires to carry it all. It isn’t that ‘Those Dancing Days’ is utter drivel, but it veers away unconvincingly. The sun may be out but this cynical bastard doesn't want to dance.

Words: Samuel Strang

i know you said it already..

but you are a cynical bastard.


what?

no way the start sounds like the theme to a 70's gameshow. its a great single.


exactly

this song is SO good! it is happy and dancy and a great sing along tune.

open up your ears! x


Nonsense, sir

The best thing about it, apart from it being a great song and that, is that on the evidence of their domestic EP there's much better to come.


i completely

understand where you're coming from mr strang, but i am going to whole-heartedly appreciate the throwaway quality of this brightly-lit single until it is raped by a mobile phone company xx


its really good!

I'm impressed by it!


single

your review is utter dribble. you try to beat around the bush without any regard to the music, the riffs and the actual lyrics. her voice is outstanding, it's rememberable and the song structure is to kill for. I am not doubting your knowledge of music. But if you were out in a club and this came on, you would dance
no ifs not buts
stop trying to put everything new down, i've read your reviews before and it seems like there always has to be something wrong or something is too similar to something else. there is only so much a band can do with a guitar, or would you prefer it to be so non sensicle and obscure that its an absolute mess, yet it's cool cause you like it and heard it first?





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