Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When you are invited to a moment, a time in which the company of friends and those you love are going to be gathered around with smiles forever painted upon their faces, in which you already have the feeling that the moment is going to be one of joy, significance, a curiosity of attraction and passion, and then it suddenly becomes one of the most spontaneous, revealing, soul impacting and wonderful consequences down the line experiences; it makes you wonder about all the Time To Burn you once enjoyed and knowing that it all changes here.

Significant, the game changer, a musical earthquake which shocks the senses out of its possible complacent view, it happens perhaps to every band, an artist cannot stand still after all and at some point, no matter how good they have been, how revered and enjoyed locally or nationally they are, the cause to experiment becomes too loud to ignore; it is in that that weight shifts, the axis of emotion swings and the fall out is one to savour.

For The Suns, Dave Lloyd and Markus Mulholland, the moment arrives inside an album that would have been excellent and a joy to listen to anyway, with songs such as Everyone Is Lying, Wakey, Wakey, Ride The Expectation and Walk The Waters placed within its small but worthy and dramatic sleeve; when you add what could be seen in any light as vivid, impressive, and beautifully theatrical, Progressive by any other name, track of All Atomic Smiles, then the switch inside that goes from expectant cool to drop-jawed fulfilment is not to be missed.

An astonishing 10 minutes and 54 seconds of brilliance, commendable of the genre they fully capture and frame within an album that is not out of step with the way that The Suns have always operated, live or the studio; however the jaw, once it has finally been placed back into its rightful position, does not lie, its response to the track is one of overwhelming gratification and pleasure. In a room full of riches, sometimes the senses are drawn to the simple and much loved, Time To Burn is rich, of that cannot be denied, but All Atomic Smiles will arguably go down as one of the studio songs of the year.

Time To Burn, no matter how you spend it in this new atomic age; you should spend it wisely and in the company that makes your life shine.

Ian D. Hall