“Take It That Way” is the brand new single from “The Flat Nasty” and it’s a surprisingly nostalgic, soft-rock offering that quickly becomes a familiar go-to for the summer.

Later on, the music evolves in a beautiful way, the melody changes – keeping your interest – the guitar, drums and a number of other subtle but effective elements help keep things moving and holding tight to your attention. And with every new moment, every alteration in the set-up, the song always resolves with that hook – Take It That Way  – it’s snappy and stops the flow of the music in a brilliant way. If ever you feel your mind wandering, which it may, and should – music lets us escape in a unique way – that hook rhythmically pulls you back to center stage and connects again just at the right time.

The concept for this track is pretty interesting and undoubtedly unusual – the band’s name adds to that intrigue and hopefully initially draws you in for the sheer novelty of it alone. As the music starts to play, the lyrics actually sound like a lot of modern rock releases that aren’t necessarily conceptual – this manner of listing short lines and ideas that don’t always relate to one another. There’s no clear or set story-line at first but if you weren’t aware of the concept for the track you wouldn’t necessarily question that – rock goes where it wants to go.

Structurally the song does everything right, it feels like a classic rock ballad from a simpler time. The backing vocals have a certain delicacy, a choir-like softness, and this contrasts rather brilliantly with the volume and swagger of those electric guitar solos. Even the chord progression and bass-line seem slightly recognisable by the time the final moments come into view.

It’s a simple song that knows what it wants to express and gets straight to it. The Flat Nasty don’t push in the way of experimentation or volume, they just make the music that means the most to them. Authenticity and experience combined sees that work well for them on this release.