Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Bard may have put it in such a way that many will quote him without even realising they are doing it, but the act of sleep, deprived to many, enjoyed by the multitude, comes with its own peculiarities, rituals and habits as any function of human existence; for Katie Mac the pleasing musical demeanour, the lowering and persistent highs that come with the plea of Let’s Fall Asleep are enough to drive temptation firmly into view.

The surprise of it all is that in this age of information overdrive, where the sometimes overpowering and intense media speculation of where a musician comes from, what they are about, what they did to release a 100 songs in such a short space of time; none of that appears with Katie Mac, what there is simple, refreshingly honest, not curtailed by imagination but expanded because of the lack of fluff that comes sometimes in tandem with the strength of character.

Than sense of tandem, of diverse thought comes through in the single, a song of strength, of personal guile and demanding the act of consummation between musician and future listener. It is a consummation, the act of union and pleasure sought that makes the song reach to a high point that would normally be unattainable after such a short foray into the world of high pressure accountability.

Katie Mac delivers with one song which many would dream of doing in five, that the nature of femininity is not to be confused with weakness and unsure fleeting moments, but with depth, driving passion and untold beautiful reasoning. Let’s Fall Asleep is not perhaps a plea but an instruction on how life should be viewed, to get all the mess out of the way before placing your thoughts into the safe keeping of Morpheus and the trust of your soul into the person you seek to share life with.

Let’s Fall Asleep is a tremendous song, bountiful, giving and impossible to argue with.

Ian D. Hall