Synth Single Review: "When They Come Around" by Sun City

by Karl Magi

Sun City's "When They Come Around" opens with luminous guitar and Jonas Klintström Larsen's saxophone, creating a sensation of desire and yearning while the velvety smooth vocals slip with undeniable, soulful passion above the supporting foundational pulse.

The saxophone flies with silken need while Chris Catton creates a similar feeling of want and fierce attraction as the hollow, classic '80s percussion locks in with the funky guitar. As Jonas Klintström Larsen's saxophone solo slips out, it exudes laid-back feelings that are permeated with the ghost of deeper emotion.

Chris Catton has a voice that captures blazing feeling in a way that pulls me inward before Chris Catton's guitar solo cries with ferocious, fervent attraction as it cuts cleanly in complex lines. A welter of heart-swelling emotion flows from Mads Noye's synth as the active percussion throbs with the strumming guitar, while the saxophone dances with luscious fervency before the music ends.

"I don't know if you loved me for more than a moment, but you made it feel like forever," as our storyteller says he only stopped to catch his breath for a moment and "as I looked back I could see your eyes, staring back at me, the eyes of a sinner." He says that those eyes haunt everything he does.

Warning the listener not to be fooled by a feeling, the narrator says, "When they come around, if they catch you dreaming, then it's over," and you'll find yourself running into the setting sun. He goes on to say, "I don't care if you used me for personal reasons, you played your part so well, it ain't fair, I thought that love never fell out of season."

"You went too far, just wanted to know you but you'd just made up your mind," and our storyteller wishes he'd been given a chance by the other person so he could "show you I'm a dreamer till the day I die."