"our love was made for movie screens"

"ALL I WANT" - Kodaline

Kodaline are from Dublin, currently unsigned and previously made music under the name 21 Demands. "All I Want" is their most recent single, released in late 2012, the first from an upcoming album.

This is one of those songs that fills a gap you didn't know existed. Something that could be just one more break-up ballad, another to the list of thousands of love songs that have been written, it's not. It's special because it is itself. Lyrically, it is simply leaking straight from the heart sorrow and honest desperation.

This isn't the music video for, "All I Want", but that too is just as creative and wonderful. This performance is just four guys, in a big empty room, filling it with the same amount of bursting noise and atmosphere as an entire orchestra, just as acoustic music should be equally able to. The swinging light bulbs and perfect timing of everything make it as visually stunning as it is to the ear, that moment around 3:20 where everything just explodes, stomping feet and beautifully powerful voices shining as bright as the lights.