The song last for three minutes and thirty two seconds. During the course of 'Symphony' Zara rhymes "I've been hearing symphonies, before all I heard was silence" with "a rhapsody for you and me, and every melody is timeless", sings "your song is on repeat, and I'm dancing on to your heartbeat" and, for the chorus, belts out: "I just want to be part of your symphony - will you hold me tight and not let go? Symphony: like a love song on the radio."
Not only is 'Symphony' one of the songier songs you'll find in the charts over the coming months but even better this song - like some of the very best songs - is a song about songs. Maybe some track producers resent the dependency they have on songwriters that would certainly explain why so many of them seem to vindictively remove choruses in favour of massive drops.Īnyway, no such problems with 'The Bandit'.
"Just needs a topline." (The song's great except for the fact that it doesn't have a song bit in it yet - well done everyone.) "Send this out to topliners," they'll instruct their A&Rs, something of an Elves & The Shoemaker-style situation but one in which the team of magical songwriting gnomes who'll turn a hot track into a hit song are regarded as a necessary evil and little more than an afterthought. People tend to be quite dismissive of the song bits of songs, don't they? "This is a great track," they'll say when they've knocked some sounds together. Like the best Clean Bandit songs it fits in perfectly on a modern playlist, but it doesn't sound like it's bending over backwards to do so.Īlso, yet again we find the song bit of the song front and centre. This new single doesn't scale the heights of ridiculousness showcased in 'Rockabye' - which is to say it doesn't feature Sean Paul popping up to shout things like "DAILY STRUGGLE!" all over the place - and nor does it quite exhibit the tears-in-the-toilets melodrama of 'Tears', but it combines the euphoria of the first and the start-like-a-ballad-end-like-a-banger MO of the latter. 'Symphony', which is out next Friday and features Zara Larsson, makes it three-for-three on our Clean Bandit single triumph spreadsheet. In uncertain times we all need something to cling to and in the world of pop things don't come much more rock solid than the sense that Clean Bandit really do know what they're doing. It's become something of a tradition for us to go a bit berserk about new Clean Bandit singles.
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