Clean Bandit's "Rather Be" Is Rather Engrossing

Put your head forward to inhale the cleansing soup that is "Rather Be", a single from Cambridge, UK's Clean Bandit. This time we're dealing with an electronic genre band. The broth is toothsome on many levels. It pleases the tastes of various music lovers. Say you'd be satisfied with a healthy dollop of prime keyboards. From the very start I know you're gonna leave the feast smiling like the sweet nothings your wife whispered in your ear carry the promises of five-star Westin hotel bedroom sex later. Maybe you favor the dignity that classical music throws down for consideration. Thanks Milan Neil Amin-Smith for giving rich robust crumbs to this segment of the population. Don't forget the musical diet often requires steady piano to keep you primed and ready for action throughout the day. That's on the menu too. Is it an excellent choice as workout listening? You'd be doing yourself a large favor not forgetting it. The lyrics possess no shortage of vim. Guest vocalist Jess Glynne would appear to have sweet, tender priorities guiding her actions. She's found a man who she'd wait forever to be reunited with. As long as she's with him there's no place she'd rather be. He's her companion in the pursuit of inner peace. Said peace makes the opening snippet keyboards played magnificently by Jack Patterson an apt instrument. I think their bubbly nature could easily be mistaken for a xylophone. We're not talking Violent Femme's "Gone Daddy Gone" xylophones since those were far more menacing "stranger in an equally menacing dark alley" rhythms. Imagine a newborn's nursery, mobile hanging overhead, levitating so as to capture the tot's attention. Nothing but sun beams as far as the ear can hear. The momentum stays steady until Luke Patterson kickstarts his drum kit. The element that makes "Rather Be" an interesting puzzle to unravel is when the instruments mesh together to form a unique, not like any fusion presently on the pop charts hybrid. Each segment of the music loving throngs gets its moment or five of TLC. I mean...Grace Chatto brings the pep on cello for heaven's sake. For anybody out there lacking the money for time allotted to a massage table and a hulking brute named Sven who knows how to release the angst from your pressure points, "Rather Be" makes for a fulfilling stand in option. The strands on this woven loom come together to create a sturdy fabric that stands up to repeated wearings. You know the best actresses in cinema are the ones who, time and again, know how to lose themselves in the character they're portraying. Jess loses herself in the "simplicity of being is divine" mantra she covets so deeply. Clean Bandit deserves praise for not ladling on the cuteness factor too thick. Your skin can breathe thus ensuring it gets as much if not a tad more of the nutrition it needs. "Rather Be" is rather engrossing, a tribute to what happens when a brainy band uses its nerd leanings to full advantage. I'd rather enjoy it if similar truffles were positioned on my dessert fork. The aftertaste is delicate to allow me to let each flavor's distinct wonderfulness wash over me. Clean Bandit is clean cut dawn's early light breeziness you'll appreciate is it rubs your weary shoulders ever so gently. Sven is going to have to get over it.