19 February 2016
You may recall the Irish connection here. Lead singer Lukas Forchhammer had an Irish father – a Mr Graham, hence the band name. ‘7 Years’ is about him. You may therefore also recall ‘7 Years’, unfortunately.
Nizlopi’s ‘JCB Song’ mashed up with ‘In The Year 2525’ and The Script, performed by an Alex Warren having a hip-hop kinda day: that’s the gist of what you get here. This may be appealing to some, appalling to others. I’m in the latter camp. I struggled to listen to ‘7 Years’. The mawkishness is overpowering. It reaches 20 years old and we’re still only halfway through the song; by the end he’s 60 and I’ve aged like the portrait in my attic. It seems there’s always a parking space at the top of the charts for this kind of first-dance-bait sad-boy folk-pop maudlinia.
