Tim And Sam - Summer Solstice

More pop than the advertised folk, Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam exist purely to eat up the word counts of journalists. Still, we can hope one day that they’ll drop the ridiculous name so that we can skip this paragraph of the review and go straight into discussing what the music is actually like.

‘Summer Solstice’ is essentially a dreamy passage of plinky plonky pop that gently surrounds the listener and recalls all of the great moments of summers that you might not even have experienced. Yes, it’s certainly being released at the worst time of year [eer, apparently this was out in June, whoops! - Ed.], but you get the feeling that the group don’t really care who’s listening. All that matters is that they play their instruments and create that feeling. As such the multiple sounds swirl around an hypnotic piano motif and understated drum machine, whisking the song through it’s duration with a lullaby smoothness.

It’s going to have a limited audience outside of folks who commission music for the background of television nature shows but that doesn’t mean that it’s not a really pleasant end engrossing listen.