This was actually the first song I seriously listened and payed attention to by Mansionair, and I was well rewarded.This song, along with their other recent single Violet City is complete electropop ear candy, and even has some well-placed guitar and playable instrumentation to boot. Slightly trippy, offbeat drums in not extremely inventive but mildly eclectic types played on percussion pads start the song, anchoring it in a large room but keeping it down to earth with a human-played rhythm. Soft keys and lovesick vocals lead into a short guitar line which brings us to the second verse. This verse has the backing electronicized vocalizations of the overworked keyboardist, but much more soothing than the ones in Astronaut, an earlier single. The chorus is appropriately large, with a weak guitar backing and more cinematic backing vocals that distract a bit from the lyrics but also help the song. The second verse shows off the excellent ear fro melody and songwriting of their lead singer, and also his incredible range and the emotion he can capture in a few simple words. The song builds to bridgeless crescendo and ends all too quickly, capping off an excellent song. Mansionair is getting much better, and if they spent more time on putting out original music and not remixes they'd be pretty popular. I really hope they put out an album soon, and from the consistency in sound and artwork in the last couple singles it looks they will, and it will be very good.
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