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Time is an illusion, one created by humanity to feel as though they can have one over on the deity of their choice or at least to keep the Cosmos on a leash.

Time well spent can be interesting, infallible, the perfect moment between each heartbeat as it counts down to the frustratingly inevitable. Time is everything and to waste a minute is almost to decry Humanity’s greatest contribution the silence in the Universe, or perversely it is to shackle the bitterest of enemies to each other and as if Humanity must face the choice between imprisonment and freedom then surely it must be asked Where Did Time Go?

Time is everything and for the lively, positively outgoing For The Girl and their new single Where Did Time Go, the spirit of the moment is one heavily captured with a certain amount of glee, with a joy of youthful intent and a bouncing backdrop that simmers, glows and finally pops along the edge of infinity as if 2016 hadn’t known musical and political hardship, as if upheaval was just a game in which other measures of time had not bothered with.

For The Girl understand this all too well, they know the perils of life, the instance between one moment of glory and the next, between the first sup of a drink in the local and finding that moment of ecstasy in the arms of a loved one, one in which time doesn’t stand still, but runs away in the heat of passion, leading to the big question, the one that always gets asked when fun has had its day, Where Did Time Go?

Sam Plenty, Josh King, Issac Hallas, James Wells and Nathan Fox make the groove plentiful, achingly good and it is to the future, the oncoming E.P. that eyes will turn to, that the band will be tested upon but sitting down and feeling the energetic pulse afforded in Where Did Time Go, it is one that is bound to verging on the awesome.

Ian D. Hall