When this song starts, I'm immediately hooked by the arrangement. This kind of bouncy pop music is right up my alley. I expect the guy from Modern English to start singing at 0:45. Once the vocal starts, I start to see the flaws, unfortunately. We just never get a melody that lives up to that opening music. The chorus is a little too similar to the verses, maybe, and doesn't have the hook I felt promised at the beginning. I want something much bigger! Seems unfinished to me. The breakdown is very effective. Also, good job using the word "escadrille." Felt better to me on repeated listens.

i like the rhythmic guitar that comes in partway. And then the one that comes out of the breakdown is very nice. The lyrics are interesting, poetic.

Long intro gives me some Cure meets Tom Delonge Blink 182 vibes, which I like. Nice drum work/programming on the choked hats in the intro, really nice touches here with the chops too. Long way into the song. Double vocal works. Really great lyric here in "years to build and seconds to collapse". Another cool breakdown to synths, I always appreciate a low pass filter on a breakdown too, it was nice on the vocal here. Very solid all around, and one of my favorite set of lyrics this time around as well. For constructives, all I'll say is listening environment affected my enjoyment of this one; in my earbuds at my desk everything sounds great, but in my car the vocal sounds a bit buried in the mix, so at at any rate, might be at least worth a listen on your end to see if you think the same. Fun track.

This is me. I had these ideas about the transitions I wanted the song to go through, but I also wanted it to clock under 3 minutes, as a result it technically only has one verse. As Frankie pointed out, the chorus sounds a bit too similar to the verse, so once this is all over I will probably return to this to rewrite the chorus so it sounds more like a chorus when I have more time.