Broadjam Artist: John Walradt
Song: Stay Here Now featuring Clay Collins
Reviewer: Stanford
Positive Comments: To me this sounds very 60s, US West Coast. Very light, breezy and sunny. Good lead vocal, and background vocals. Easily could be the theme tune to a teen drama or situation comedy too.
Constructive Comments: Vocals are great but I’m not hearing a real hook to latch onto and follow. I hear the “cannot take another day” and “thousand miles away” lines but I feel you could do more to build that into a real hook, the 2nd line really, even a bit of repetition, forcing it to the front of the mix etc. could help. Normally I’m looking for the opposite for variety but there’s almost too many changes in the song to stick it in my memory.Some of the background vocals don’t sit quite right, the “no no” mainly doesn’t quite work for me but the hums and oohs and aaahs and most else works really well and adds to the easy going feel.Even though it’s angsty lyrically, the mood is very gentle, easy going and up beat, which I do like, that’s it’s USP. And the instrumentation, piano, strummed guitar etc. I think works just right for that. The bass though is probably a bit far back in the mix for my ear.