Love songs have been with us since the invention of music—probably—but there is always room for more; well, there is if they are done as well as this latest single from Thomas Bradley Project. Then again, they are from Liverpool, the city that told us that all we needed was love, so there might be something in the DNA—or at least in the water.
“All I Ever Wanted’s” greatest quality is that it doesn’t try too hard, it doesn’t make a big deal out of the subject matter, it is relaxed and reminiscent, and because of that, it feels honest, a quality that most love songs fail to convince us of.
Another great facet is the song’s dynamic. Whereas many songs found in this sonic realm are either delicate balladry or punchy, fist-in-the-air, celebratory rock, this is both. Not only does it ebb and flow between both extremes to set up a great dynamic, but it also balances deftness and energy, muscle, and melody throughout so that it never finds itself stuck in one genre or another. Music definitely made between pop and a hard place.
It’s a smart pop song when it wants to be, a driving folk song at times, and a punchy rock anthem at its most strident. Because of that, not to mention the sheer relatability of its subject matter, it is a song that is going to appeal to the mass ranks of the discerning music buyer as readily as it does the youthful pop-picker.
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