The track itself is a grower - the first time I heard it, it almost sounded unfinished, or half-baked. The chorus especially, with it's ultra-simplistic lyrics, takes a few listens before it works. It's very reminiscent of some of the material from their 1984 album "Hysteria," which itself was the follow up to their mega-breakthrough album "Dare." It's synth-pop at it's most minimalistic, and it tells a story woven throughout the verses about meeting a girl in a bar, who is in some kind of danger, if she was ever actually there at all. Despite it's starkness, it does end up sounding quite epic in the end with all the layers of vocals and synths finally getting to climax. A really good music video could do a lot to enhance this track, but it's probably a pipe-dream since this is the third single from the record.
As far as the mixes go, the Paper Plates remix just kind of plods along with a sort of fake-funk beat that sounds like something you might hear in an after-hours club. The Hacker's take is probably the most radically different with some menace to it, but gets a little repetitive and overstays it's welcome at 7:44 total length. Fusty Delights and Martin Brodin both borrow heavily from the sound of the League's seminal "Don't You Want Me," which is good in the way that it makes that connection, but really, who hasn't heard "Don't You Want Me" enough? There are enough interesting bits in both mixes to make them worthy of the dancefloors though.
"Credo" will see a vinyl release on the same day that "Sky" is released (July 25) and is rumored to be getting a US release later this year.
Listen to the remixes here.
Rating: OOOO (four out of five O's)
Sky was one of my favorites from the get go, happy to see it get chosen as a single. I hope we at least get to hear the 4 singles performed at the shows!
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