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Forever Isn’t Long Enough-Alfie Templeman: Positive Shift With His Style And Still Showing Potential

Written by Tom Bedding


Alfie Templemen has quickly laid down his sound during his early stages of his career. However he is offering slight shifts within his songwriting to keep everyone eagerly excited to see where he will end up, later down the line.



With having the producer of Jungle (Tom McFarland), Alfie is allowed to express himself so impressively with the rhythm section on the opener ‘Shady’. It feels like the right first track on this mini-album, offering us the releases sound and having a chorus that feels so lush with its solid melody.


Then the hook found on ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’, is highly engaging and especially with the mixing of the group vocals, soon after the chorus. The nods to the classic Foals model is playful and really indicates how Alfie has progressed as an overall songwriter, you can tell he wants to have some fun but still have purpose with his ideas as an artist. Forever..’ really does come into its own during its last stretch, bringing together the book and fun synths to create an awesome and refreshing atmosphere.


Disco and slight grittiness combines together well on ‘Hideaway’, offering as a classic sound that is naturally Nile Rodgers inspired, with its guitar riff and percussion choices. The vocal mix may not work as well it was intended but this cut allows this latest release to feel less repetitive as previous efforts by Templeman.



Weirdly….for some reason One Direction’s last album came to mind when hearing the bass line and verses on ‘Wait, I lead’, which is always an interesting thought to convey when reviewing songwriters? The vocal delivery and rhythm stands out on this song, keeping this song going constantly and ensuring it stays up with the rest of the releases standard.


Written back in 2017, Alfie Templeman wanted to write a simple and universal love song with ‘Everybody’s Gonna Love Somebody’. The overall result feels classic with its sax touches in the mix and accessible melody, giving us a little bopping moment with the chorus. You can just tell this will grab a lot of attention when it’s played on radio over the coming months.


‘Film Scene Daydream’ comes next and you can tell it came from the artist listening to The 1975’s ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’, due to how similar it is with its 80’s production style. From the word go, you can hear that influence with its synth sound, mixing of the drums and the guitar lick during the opening. The lyrics take you back that to that time when socialising felt like an impossible dream during the lockdowns, the song really does capture that daydreaming feeling we all had in the last year.


Templeman must of put down this track during 2020 as you can hear there is such a mash up of Tame Imapla and The Weeknd’s recent releases. Its combination works really well and takes the best elements of both of those records so well, giving us a really engaging song.


This mini album finishes with a sunset like closer, which focuses on anxiety and wanting to really find help with your problems. Aprils vocals give the track a greats dynamic to it, offering a partnership to the struggles that are being sung about on the song. After the song closes, you do feel satisfied with the overall result of ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’ however you are left wondering if Alfie Templeman is still learning graft and that the songwriter has another gear in him, only time will tell.




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