another soundcloud heads up and this came from jimi needles who plays the drums in the band and it came with message of it's the single from their upcoming record. i don't even know why i was following needles in the first place but i'm glad that i am since his blurb on this one said all the right things. on a glance i thought it would be another version of beyoncé's "work it out" but i know speedometer did that and that wasn't even a good version.
luckily it was not for two reasons, i don't like beyoncé's song and this is much better than that. since the name of the game is soul and blues (and might i add revival) i thought of amy winehouse's "back to black" the first bar since they have a similar piano groove but the similarities stops there. the moment that made me fall in love with the song is when hannah williams sings her first bar and it had the same feeling of when i first heard etta james.
her voice is really powerful and it commands your attention and her heartfelt bellowing really speaks to you and i felt i was the person she was talking about. the song really doesn't have a good chorus if i am going to be honest and the backup singers don't help. it doesn't let down the song as rest of it really falls to place with the slow backing track with the usual bluesy accentuations. it's a great platform for williams to belt it out and the key moment is right near the end when she says "i wanna scream" and then follows it up "baby i wanna scream" and an uh that both etta james and james brown would be proud of.
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