Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Perhaps one of the toughest lessons we have to learn at any age is, that What We Want sometimes doesn’t matter, that desire can only bring so much to life and overall can often lead us down a path to which our own control of things is abused by our very own cravings.

What we want may not matter, not in the scheme of things, not in a cosmos ruled by chaos and one that is willing to extend a bony middle finger in our general direction whenever the going might get good, or at least plausibly interesting, yet What We Want should at least be something to aspire to and it is in What We Want that sees S T F U reach out and grab life for all it is worth, for all that they desire to bring to the fore and make real.

Atmospheric, moody, mean and calculated, the form of life that kicks out when a person is down but also understands when a lift is needed, when the melancholia has dried up and taken leave of its senses and requires that more personable touch to the proceedings. Atmosphere is one thing that cannot be cheated upon, cannot be subjected to the realms of hostage by charlatans or rogues and S T F U understand this perfectly, they mould the album in such a way that sincerity flows out of it at a sedate, pleasant and unshockable pace and yet somehow leaves the listener enthused and heartened to have been allowed to sneak behind the velvet curtain as if by accident, when it truth it was the master-plan all along.

From the opening of Secret and through the passages of time that contain songs such as Second Time, New Shadows, the delicate but precise A Thousand Cuts and the excellence of Trickery, S T F U show that What We Want might allude us most of the time but it what we didn’t know that captures a part of our heart

An aspiring album, one that offers the unconventional a place at the table and one that you dare not disappoint; What We Want is a truth in music and S T F U dare propose such an outing.

Ian D. Hall