This single from quartet Aloosh begins as a quirky jittery little number, before settling in a Casiotone For The Painfully Alone like synthy rumble over Joshua Blackmore’s jazzy drum-beat, it’s spear-headed by vocalist Jodie Scantlebury who has a sweet yet ‘street’ snap to her delivery.
Around about the two and a half minute mark it turns into a pacy, lacklustre pop number, Scantlebury cooing ‘Time travels by so slowly’ as chords ascend up into twinkling atmospherics before it rattles to a sudden, erratic close.
It’s a slight, reasonably inventive and intriguing song that does, at least, mark Aloosh as a playful band willing to mess with a formula to produce something that in one regard conforms to accessible ‘pop’ tropes and in another turns them on their head. It’s enough to raise a curious eyebrow and suggest that they could have something marvellous up their sleeve.
[Rating:3]
