So having sat through five turgid, repetitive, monotonous, generic, beat-filled bumping dancefloor-orientated remixes courtesy of John Dahlback, Corrugated Tunnel, Dan Cat, Tommy Four Seven and mark (O'Sullivan, who, along with Jesper Dahlback, is one half of DK7), I'm bored half to death and mighty frustrated - which is why it's taken me so long to review this. But I've made it to the original, got my thoughts together again, and... well, it's quite passable, actually, a dark eighties-inspired slice of electro-disco.
Ok, so it reminds me of so many other bands, but the fact remains that it's rather good: full of atmosphere, a fragile guitar line snaking through a foggy synth that envelops the track in an enigmatic sonic haze and a chorus that really does lodge itself in the brain after a couple of plays... which makes it even more of a pity that the remixes strip all of these compelling qualities from a genuinely strong single.
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It ends as it begins: a radio edit version of the John Dahlback remix. At three and a half minutes, and without the protracted drum-machine intro, it's a distinct improvement on the full-length version, but still not a patch on the original. This begs the question, why can't people just leave things alone?
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