1. Head Shoulders Knees Toes // 2. Overdrive // 3. Hot Blue Shoes // 4. Caffeine Rush // 5. Overthinking // 6. Here For You
CAFFEINE RUSH
Caffeine Rush is the only completely outsourced song on the new album without any of TWS’s usual composers participating in its creation. Among its composers are two of the industry’s most malleable (ie: generic?) names: Joombas and Ryan Jhun. Because of this, the song feels the most like “album filler” we’ve gotten from TWS yet. I could imagine just about any boy group performing it.
This isn’t to say that Caffeine Rush is bad. It’s lovely to hear the members’ vocals front and center. Their varying tones are one of my favorite aspects of the group and they don’t often get to dig into a sparsely produced mid-tempo track like this. It’s the closest TWS have gotten to “coffeehouse fare,” which makes sense given the title of the song I guess! Hints of exuberance still peek out here and there, but overall this is little more than pleasant breathing room before we amp things back up for a strong pair of closing tracks.
| Hooks | 8 |
| Production | 7 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 7.75 |
