I found myself quite surprised when lead vocalist Duncan Wallis opens the song with the lyrics "I want in and out" in his signature falsetto voice. Hearing about his sexual desires in such a blunt way is all a bit direct and honest to what I am used to from an indie pop band. However, Wallis prepared fans for an alternative emotive approach, saying that the new album is "more personal and direct than before, with reflections on pregnancy, terrorism, school discos, divorce, health scares, sexual dysfunction, and job-seeking." From both this and the other release "Decided Knowledge", we are certainly exposed to all the intimate topics that Wallis mentioned. Compared to their other popular tracks such as "Flexxin", this takes a diversion to an 80s funk pop sound with the inclusion of abstract synths and pulsing bass lines. However, with the in keeping of clean guitar riffs and drum beats, it maintains their indie roots. Although it sounds like an upbeat and feel good song musically, its quite a contrast lyrically as Wallis describes it as being about "the isolation of never being able to return to a perfect first moment". The music video that they recently posted makes this contrast just as interesting visually, its shot in black and white with close ups of the naked body, focusing on the intimacy and value of sex. My first assumption that they were talking about it in a degrading way is proved wrong, which makes a nice change as there is often too much negative sexualisation in music videos.
Although the lyrics are perhaps a little over-informative and not everybody's idea of romantic, it is undoubtedly a fun, sing a long song, just maybe not in public..
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