This lot are long -term BM faves and it is good to see them back with this gorgeously mordant new single, seemingly about a couple who now realise they “want different things”.
Quite a slow burn at first, it builds slowly, with a clanging guitar combining with some nice strings to create a sense of unease and tension, as the vocals indicate that the narrator is less than overjoyed with his current lot – “You put the con into consistency” is a cutting line, among others, recalling some of Neil Hannon’s best, if he had Del Amitri’s guitar lines that is.
“I contemplate faking a seizure before I remember you are medically trained” is just fecking hilarious, the quiet rage between all the “bababa” choruses burning. Is there any resolution to this bad situation – doesn’t look like it but it certainly provides for one of WTB’s best tracks yet and a worthy comeback!
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