Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is so much strength in the world, so much hidden from plain view that sometimes the extraordinary is obscured by the feelings of jaded despair and noisy waste that flourishes in the absence of mouth watering musical beauty. For Anna Corcoran, that magical beauty, of the glorious and divine that comes across in her music is not just full of great strength but the imagery it provides is like the clear waters in a large and mighty lake, the whole sense of creation and its purpose there for all to see and in Ms. Corcoran’s measured way of producing intelligently subtle music, creation, beauty is far Easier Than Falling.

Falling is perhaps a word not associated with such a positive demeanour in which the progression of decade’s worth of music is placed together in terrific harmony and yet in all the finest artistic talent, the fear of falling does get under the skin, it resides because it must, it lives to drive the artist on and if that is the case then Easier Than Falling is not just a gigantic bench mark for others to aspire to, it is the sense of calm and craved for desire that makes it achievable.

With contributions across the age from the likes of Etienne Girard, Tom Cowley, Mike Smith, Stephanie Kearley, Jake Woodward, Tony Draper, Scot Poley, Robert Vincent, Adrian Gautrey and Martin Smith, the music is reflective, profound and passionate, it forces an emotional response to which the heart grieves over because the temptation is soon taken away but then rejoices in its security of having been blessed with immense imagery being pulled from the deep waters.

Tracks such as Drunk Girl and Meltdown from an earlier period of Ms. Corcoran’s musical expression mix freely with the absolute stunning The Show and Tied Up With A Ribbon and give the type of easy going nature that is missed in many songs something of the generous, of the dance to which so many refuse to acknowledge exists.

To have these songs, beautifully crafted, performed with the delicate nature of a ballerina tapping on the piano keys, is to acknowledge and revel in the sheer necessity of joy in your life and deep rooted throughout, Anna Corcoran supplies with absolute grace. Easier Than Falling is an album of tantalizing robustness disarmingly obscured by a delicate shell, truly wonderful.

Ian D. Hall