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For those who have experienced the side effects of living in a part of the world where darkness prevails for months on end like a lonely wolf stalking its prey with relentless but determined passion, it never seems to end and Waiting On The Sun to come and drain the life from the wintery waste is like being the hare that the wolf has got the scent of, it drains you to the point of exhaustion.

Thankfully Waiting On The Sun by The Jackobins eats into the left over Winter decay, the wolf is sent packing, hungry and flayed and the band stand victorious and praised by all alike.

The song, released not long after their epic sounding E.P. Ghosts, is testament to the energy that gushes through the veins of Dominic Bassnett, Veso Mihaylov, John Whittingham, Chris Marriott and Marc Terry. Like Ghosts there is a terrific tension that glides underneath the surface of the song, it stands like a gunslinger defending the rights of a Mexican village, the sun blazing away behind him and with five bullets of rock precision aimed and ready to be let loose on the false pretenders and those with blackness in their hearts.

Waiting On The Sun is a tremendous attachment to the Ghosts E.P., dark, direct, full of what you expect from a band that knows how to deliver no nonsense lyrics wrapped up in a suit of armour, for in Waiting On The Sun, the gunslinger is not just prepared, he is suited and angry, he is out for revenge and the like the song, will take no prisoners.

No matter what The Jackobins continue to take life full on, they are quite right of course, for there is no better way.

Ian D. Hall