Mvuent needs to do a deep listening analysis on a song of their choice. Give us the inside angle.
The clothes have been touched on a little already but that look IS a certain kind of middle class England. The black technical jacket, the dark logo-less jumper or t-shirt, the denim, the skate shoes or hiking boot. It is a massive chunk of north London and a huge amount of The North proper. It pays tribute to utilitarian values (comfort fit, use value, made to last) and it nods at 'urban' culture while acknowledging it can't belong there but most of all it aspires to disappear. Camouflage and anonymity. That enormous distaste for rising above the crowd, for drawing attention to oneself, flamboyance and showing off that informs the English psyche.