‘Costumes’ is powerful, energising, and filled with a stadium rock aura. The indie rock anthem from Nick Noon has an emphatic narrative that’s buoyed on by the sheer magnetic presence that Noon has over his central performance. Pleasure’s got a hold on me was replaying again and again on my head not soon after. But, at its core, what impressed me the most of this tune was its ability to so effortlessly and seamlessly fuse this simple and grounded indie folk poignance with a larger than life orchestral assembly into this grandiose yet fundamentally simple tune.
Considering Nick Noon is a storied song writer, having composed and written over a hundred tunes in his life, ‘Costumes’ arrangement is perhaps unsurprising in how tight and immaculate it sounds. It is a resoundingly powerful and compelling listen.