Not a cover of the famous Beatles ballad (though they have done a cover of Everything But The Girl’s ‘Missing’) but a new song in its own right from Sydney’s Expatriate and a vanguard for their forthcoming album, no doubt. The riff is a nice mix of hard rock and nihilist eighties indie, Ben King has a nice line in mildly affected vocals (semi-fop as opposed to full fop) and the lyrics lie on an isthmus between the populist torch songs of Snow Patrol and the blackened futurescapes of Sisters of Mercy. All well, good and interesting, but it severely lacks a tangible climax, especially when one is offered on a plate at the onset of the only chorus in the piece. Pleasing and anti bland but does not go all the way.
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