TRACK REVIEW: Patrick Gosling – The Alum

Patrick Gosling’s summery indie anthem throws us straight into its own world. Coming in as one big cosy, shimmering wall of sound, it races ahead as if hurtling through a galaxy, and makes you want to run furiously along a beach and send a flock of seagulls bursting off into the air.

The Alum is a call to the heartbroken and the hopeful, its narrator hurt and adoring in the face of cold rejection, and has the fists-in-the-air spirit of a Springsteen song. Gosling brings a natural, open, folk style of storytelling to the verses of a commendable and otherwise traditional indie track, as well as a gracious response to a cruel dismissal, a response which suggests she doesn’t know what she’s missing.