Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Therapy comes in all shapes and sizes, all manners and means, sometimes it is the smallest expression of gratitude that makes the difference to the situation, that the signal from a snare and the hum of a microphone can repair the damage done in life; it might seem a moment of Bad Touch but Truth Be Told, music is arguably the most therapeutic mechanism on the planet.
The Rock and Roll express does not usually find a way to the county of Norfolk, not one with any serious intent anyway and yet in the flat lands of the east, one that is part submerged by history and its relationship with the rest of the country and in part by the feeling of being surrounded on all fronts by water, by the sea and the expansive waterways, hold surprises, they hold a boggling array of humanity at its finest and the reasoning for sharing untold riches. It is in that sharing of riches, of therapeutic affluence, that Bad Touch shows its plush Rock colours and delve headlong into offering a great Rock classic in the new millennium mode.
Therapy, often you don’t even know you are receiving it, that it washes over you in a manner befitting the very best of healing and whilst some music is the equivalent of receiving 24 hour nursing and the soothing calm hand, Bad Touch’s Truth Be Told is the race against the clock, the fuel assisted paddle beating electric shock revival that brings the heart back into sharp focus and the needle spinning round to the point of happiness and unequivocal cool.
The final analysis of the situation, the cure to many ills is found in songs such as 99%, Under My Skin, Heartbreaker, Soulshaker and the superb Outlaw, for the Doctors on board dishing out the therapy, Stevie Westwood, Rob Glendinning, George Drewry, Michael Bailey and Daniel Seekings, this is Rock at its most pure, the essence of rehabilitation and the pounding electric beat; nothing on Earth is as potent as adhering to the medical plan, nothing beats the feeling that the Truth Be Told.
Bad Touch’s Truth Be Told is released on December 2nd.
Ian D. Hall