The Singles Jukebox

Let’s raise the mood and the temperature a few degrees.

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Iain Mew: The video gives the game away: the song’s as of the moment and as eager to please as a Check Out These 21 Dogs Having A Great Time At The Beach article, and about as deep and individual.
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Scott Mildenhall: Pushing this at the back end of last year wasn’t the smartest timing, but it would have been wrong for it to go without another airing this summer. If anything, it sounds like it should have been released in 2013: shiny, buoyant house pop of the sort that has somewhat died a death in the charts more recently. It’s tough to try and create something so uplifting without it sounding cloying or mandatory, but Tieks has managed it.
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Alfred Soto: Polite house trying for pie-eyed optimism with a weak Philip Bailey impression. 
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Thomas Inskeep: Lovely, upbeat vocal piano house. I love this kind of thing when it’s done well, and this is done well.
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Edward Okulicz: As light and perky as this song’s piano house is, I find the chorus repetitive and oppressive, much like the Sun itself. It has occurred to me that pop, like the weather, is largely a matter of taste and the failing might be mine, but I don’t really think so.
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Will Adams: Dime-a-dozen house that leaves little impression other than something akin to the regret felt immediately after ordering your fifth frozen strawberry banana margarita.
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Brad Shoup: What works for the worst of summer — dry mixes straining for escape — also works for fall, as long as the synths are dialed down. Here, they’re nowhere: it’s just piano and bubbling-up guitar noodle. In his falsetto, Harkna sounds like Timberlake; out of that, he’s channeling Stevie.
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