Review
Genre and Mood
Whilk & Misky bring their blend of acoustic warmth and electronic pulse to Get What We Want, a track that moves between electronic production, indie pop and soul. Its mood is uplifting, groovy and romantic, a song that feels hopeful without ever becoming saccharine.
Song Summary
The song builds on a simple idea, the wish to finally get what we want, and gives it a soulful, rolling groove. Charlie Dickens’ warm voice carries the melody over a steady beat, with organic textures woven into Nima Khaste’s electronic production. The track is less about big drops than about a constant, gentle momentum, the kind that makes you nod along before you notice you are doing it, and it works as well on a quiet afternoon as in a relaxed set.
Musical Breakdown
The arrangement grows steadily, each section adding a little more warmth to the groove.
Intro
A soft beat and warm, organic textures set a relaxed tempo, inviting rather than insistent.
Verse 1
The vocal enters with a soulful, slightly hushed delivery, the groove rolling patiently underneath.
Chorus
The hook lifts into a brighter, more open melody, the title phrase sung like a shared promise.
Bridge
A short, stripped-back moment lets the voice and textures breathe before the groove returns.
Outro
The beat rolls on as the vocal fades, closing the track on the same easy momentum it began with.
Concepts in Focus
Whilk & Misky describe their music as <a href=“https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/blues/” class=“concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400” data-concept=“blues” title=“The African-American music born in the Deep South around the start of the 20th century, built on call and response, bent “blue” notes and short repeating forms such as the twelve-bar blues. Almost every later popular style, from rock and soul to house, carries some of its scales and phrasing.“>blues blended with electronica and techno, with some folk in it. Dickens grew up on punk, early hip-hop, his father’s country records and his mother’s classical music; Khaste grew up with Iranian music and, as a teenager in Dubai, Gulf music and Bauhaus. They have said that house tracks can be rooted in pentatonic blues, and that idea is a good way into this song: a singer-songwriter’s phrasing that would sit on an acoustic guitar, carried by an electronic beat.
What holds the track together is its groove, steady and unhurried. There is no build to a drop; instead the rhythm keeps a gentle momentum from start to finish, and the voice rides on it. Listen to how the beat never pushes and yet never lets the song stand still.
Artistic Context
Whilk & Misky are a London-based duo, singer, guitarist and writer Charlie Dickens and producer and keyboardist Nima Khaste, who met in 2013 at a diner where Dickens worked; their name comes from an old milk-and-whiskey drink once used as a hangover cure. After a debut EP in 2014 they signed to Island Records, where songs such as “Darklands” drew attention. “Get What We Want”, written by the two, appears on My Round, released on 16 June 2017 by Fox Lane Music.
Impact and Reception
The duo have built a loyal following through their warm, genre-blurring approach, playing festivals and venues such as Baby’s All Right in New York, and My Round showed them refining that sound into compact, soulful songs. It is on this playground as a companion to “Darklands”, another side of the same duo. Put it on for a slow, sunny moment.
