I have one problem with commercial singer-songwriters: the very fact that they're commercial. It's a fine line sometimes, between commercial-with-merit and popular-indie - which is, say, the line between Charlie Simpson and Marcus Mumford. I'm going to say it right out - Down Down Down is an ok song. It has an acoustic guitar or two, strings, et al, and the man himself has a decent voice if that's your kind of thing. The most glaring thing about it, however, is that it's a song without substance. It's a tune, a group of musicians, in dire need of a good lyric. Case in point: "And the nights are so long without you / And the days speed up." Seriously, Charles. I mean, seriously. Much like his first outing as "the one from Busted with the terrifying eyebrows" (he's still got those, by the way), it's a diluted copy of a decent genre - first doing brain-numbing pop-punk, and now only-slightly-less-brain-numbing pseudo-folk. But it's ok! It does what it says on the tin. It's radio-friendly folk pop, and that's all. It won't change the world. Hell, it's not even trying to.
But can someone please tell me what the deal is with that weird tempo change?
3/10
Mollx
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