ENJOYABLE LISTENS: ‘SUMMER HIT’ SINGLE REVIEW
Summer Hit pulls you into a disorientating dreamscape of crooning melancholy. In other words, it’s great.
The newest single from Oxford-based Enjoyable Listens is a re-recording of an old favourite with production by the increasingly well-known Joseph Futak. Together, they make a great team. The new recording feels fresher, bigger and more ambitious with gorgeous strings and purposeful mixing.
// Now I'm talking with a butler // As we try to love each other
// Now I'm talking with a butler // As we try to love each other
Luke has an incredibly distinctive voice, far beyond his years. His warm and confident croons throw a vintage red velvet curtain over the whole thing, taking you back to smokey bars and cigarette holders.
The plucking guitar calls back to the core melody throughout the song, giving you something to hold onto as Luke’s strange lyrics send you off to a world of paragliding, butlers and frustration. Layered, siren-like harmonies inch forward until you fall even further into the scene he’s imagining, dreaming or reliving (I doubt we’ll ever know).
If you’re looking for a bit of escapism, Summer Hit could be for you. It might take a few listens to appreciate fully, but it’s worth every tap of the rewind button.
// But it's so hard when the walls won't let me forget // Baby put me to the test
// But it's so hard when the walls won't let me forget // Baby put me to the test
“It’s a kind of montage of a dreamscape of a semi-romantic/threatening encounter that I didn’t know I was capable of cooking up. The idea that I was capable of doing something like that on my own was obscure enough to make me feel…I don’t know really. But I’m pleased with where it went.”
Read the full interview here.
