The backroom staff for the Orange Lights may well be better known than the band themselves. Coldplay producer Ken Nelson chose to work with them before they had a record label, while finishing touches are added by highly respected studio men Chris Potter and Chris Lord-Alge. That said, the Orange Lights' songwriter is Paul Tucker, who has previous hit making credentials as songwriter for the Lighthouse Family. So the CVs are impressive - but do they secure a good job?
Well this particular employer would like to opt for the luxury of a second interview. There's nothing particularly wrong with the sound and the song is an accomplished one, but it fails to really excite and rise above the mundanity of mid Monday morning radio. Coldplay-type falsettos appear for the central passage, before the "love is what you want, love is what you need to set you free" chorus, and the balladeers are home and dry.
And while it might fall into the ‘emotive pop/rock category, it does so with a whimper rather than anything too pronounced. Inoffensive, then - but not especially memorable either.
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