“I Won’t Tell A Soul” is another slice of retro flavored doo-wop pop from the 23 year old, and builds well on the brand Puth is carving out for himself. Although the track is nothing revolutionary, it’s catchy and features some genuinely outstanding melodic riffs. Not to mention that Charlie has a voice so listenable that he could sing the phonebook and it’d sound beautiful.
Having said that, it’s a shame that the production sounds so vintage because there’s a sense that the song strays from being ’60s inspired to a ’60s pastiche. In actual fact if the instrumentation had stayed closer to this live rehearsal, the track may have been better able to straddle the line between retro and dated.