Better Than It Ever Could Be - The Preatures - Single Review
- genevavalek
- Feb 3, 2014
- 2 min read
In the darkest depths of 2013, The Preatures undertook a voyage only undertaken by the finest of bands: to wriggle free from the cocoon of forgettable pop obscurity and emerge majestically into the limelight of Australia’s finest new indie acts.
Driven through 2013 by their unexplainably indelible, Hottest 100 conquering, shameless pop single ‘Is This How You Feel’, Sydney five piece The Preatures are back with another single with an uncomfortably long title: ‘Better Than It Ever Could Be’.
This track, however, is anything but uncomfortable: valorous and valiant vocals from lead singer/ Tony-Abbot-Sex-Appeal-Hater Isabella Manfredi pave the way for another bulletproof pop song for you to lose your shit to in the dying hours of summer.
Everything about this song is gorgeous: Better Than It Ever Could Be is like that really innocent and naïve friend everyone has, who then suddenly comes out and says something really funny/inappropriate/dirty and you think to yourself ‘Wow, that was weird, but I love it’.
A typically Preaturesque flowy verse (Come here closer / Liberate my mind / Could you stop this and put it close to mine?!) roll over delightful guitar tremors which transform into distorted reflective strums that shine down like the summer sun, giving you the type of sunburn that you feel guilty about but grit your teeth and enjoy anyway.
The verse paves way, as most songs do, to the inevitable: the chorus, and what a chorus it is. If there were a metaphorical boxing match between the choruses of Better Than It Ever Could Be and Is This How You Feel, it would go right down to the wire.
It’s like all the sexual energy/tension ever in the world goes into Manfredi’s vocals in the chorus, before gathering together into the title: ‘IT GETS BETTER THAN IT EVER COULD BE!’, spat out with so much punk menace it would make Joe Strummer from The Clash grimace in admiration.
So, go on. Remove your boring necktie and business shirt and face the world bare-chested (yes, you too women). Find something heavy and throw it on the ground, scream and shout, enjoy summer, because this moment really is Better Than It Ever Could Be.
Review by Ruben Seaton
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