Big choruses don’t come much bigger than this. The second single taken from DOGS' current album Tall Stories From Under The Table mixes Jam-esque swagger, Razorlight dynamics and an absolute cracker of a chorus, thus transforming a pretty uniform indie number into a potential classic.
Don’t lets get carried away here though. The song opens with little fanfare – the standard rumbling bass and percussion, a guitar lead over the top trying to tie the lot together. Then Johnny Cooke starts to sing….
What the world doesn’t need is another Modfather. Not more derivative nonsense buying into what the world thought was cool twenty-odd years ago. No disrespect.
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It’s just then that the chorus that catches you by surprise. You won’t want to like this song, you really won’t. But once the chorus gets its hooks in you there’s no letting go.
Great songwriting is great songwriting and there’s no denying it here. This is easily one of the best singles of the year so far, and how’s this for a lyric?
"The coldest place in the betting shop is by the litter bin, you lost the lot."
Brilliant!
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