@rightly - Whato - this is the first song I've reviewed without hearing it...an unusual approach indeed. I read the lyrics a few times becasue in the past I found them to be occluded by the music, so I just wanted to digest them and make sense of them beforehand. Truly superb, and as so often happens the narrative is so well known sometimes the story is no so apparent, so I'm taking time to unravel the story (if I can)
Now onto the first listen...I was quite surprised actually, it's more graspable for me this time, sometimes it's quite tricky for my ears to detach from what I know and hook into your original world, this one is easier.
For me I'd start with just the piano and your voice.. until then end of the Verse. Then introduce each instrument maybe by each verse, it sounds a bit samey with all of the instruments all there right from the off, I liked the ooo oo's at the end of the verses, I think more could be done with that idea.
Maybe look at some dangering it up on the vocal processing, and on the drums, not in vloume, but maybe adding catch lo-fi fx and verb/delay, but sparingly (not overboard) just for contrast really, anyway I really dig this, to me Paul, your work gets better and better.
