Jarv in The Observer tomorrow:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxmjlH4FiTw/

Mary-Anne Hobbs is about to play the radio edit this morning (original is nearly 7 minutes long) - she seems to think it's a very interesting, not simply chopping half the song out - described as a remix. Hopefully might actually get some radio play!

Eamonn wrote:

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The edit is a minute shorter but still getting on for 6 minutes so I imagine at that length even 6Music-play will be sporadic.

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 It's hardly music for radio play anyway, innit ? 

superchob wrote:

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A few recycled ideas that were fun to hear: the 'pop' of the big bang comes close to the whisper at end of the world in Quiet Revolution; repetition of 'so glad we made it' is reminiscent of 'so glad I found ya' in It's a Dirty World'; the field somewhere in Hampshire is sort of aluded to too)

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 ...and the swirly sound effects from Space rear their head.. actually, after repeated listening, I think there's a good deal more self-reference going on here than initially meets the ear - ironic in a song about evolution and wondering whether there's even a need to continue and reinvent...

The audience provides the imperitive refrain (the "yes!" and "no!") that answers him, and his repeated rephrasing of the same question (and especially the eventual statement of doubt) amounts to resistance to their demands. So, could this be a 'goodbye' album? Remember, there was plenty of disgust expressed at the notion of churning-out identikit 'product' back in the Hardcore days ("just another song about single mothers and sex" etc).

Alternatively, it could be an admission that he still finds it hard. (And again, writing never seemed to come easily post-DC).

This song is thrilling and bodes well for the album, but I think the gap between the innovation it proclaims and that is demonstates is deliberate and possibly rather clever. I thought Room 29 showed him to be an even cuter writer than I'd previously thought - beyond his evident wit