The Singles Jukebox

The follow-up to her “Dye My Hair” single (as the screencap affirms)…

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Alfred Soto: This Finnish singer conjures the 3 a.m. frustration of nodding off in a bar while chipmunk vocals and sampled rattles won’t let you pass out.
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Katherine St Asaph: Alma may be Finnish, but this still sounds like a basin full of muddled BRIT School debuts.
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Iain Mew: If I think of this as an alternative to the Dua Lipa pop end of UK-chart-targetting house-pop, but with a more powerful vocal, it’s pretty good. It’s only when the pitched-up vocals make it into an inferior version of Seinabo Sey’s “Younger” that it doesn’t seem so great.
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David Sheffieck: I like the detail in the verses, mapping the slow build of emotional tension and moments of tentative progress, and the choice to start at 2 a.m. lends an immediacy to the lyric. But Alma’s sound is far too familiar — I feel like I’ve heard this song a dozen times over the past couple years. Usually, it at least has the decency to include a hook or two.
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Juana Giaimo: The rather nasal voice distortion on the hook is the only thing that distinguishes “Chasing Highs” from any other pop song that appears these days — and it’s rather annoying. 
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Tim de Reuse: One way to structurally arrange dance music is to place all the weight on the hook, where all other sections are strictly subordinate to it, either serving to build up to it or slow down from it and don’t really have a point on their own — and when that works, it works! But it doesn’t work here, because the hook is clunky and anticlimactic and if you’re not paying attention you might completely miss it.
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Will Adams: Chasing middles.
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