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If only we had the strength of character in which offering A Little More wasn’t to be seen as being derogatory to ourselves, that others would not see it as almost as we were bragging, exposing some sort of potential to the light and then claiming that we are being flash, exhibitionist, the green-eyed monster of jealousy rearing its head and sniffing the air for the disgruntled and the unhappy and relishing in their words of supposed entitled shaming. If only we could laugh a little more, love with less burden upon our shoulders, see the world with more beauty…it would be worth the world.

It is a sentiment, perhaps a wish, but certainly one carved in stone, by Almost Autumn, a series of words tied down with sincerity and the possession of music in which to make it possible, in which to fall into line and hope that others feel the same way. It is a song that is reminiscent of the 70s ballad, nowhere near as demonstrative or bogged down by excess that was to come in the 80s, nor as ungainly or riven by a psychoanalyst’s dream in the 90s, this is the sound of a single that has melody and beautiful simplicity at its heart; and one that captures the mood with a smile upon its creative face.

In simplicity we find a kind of peace, one not loaded with the double, or even treble, meaning, just a song in which the music flows like a gentle stream, one where that single white cloud in the sky drifts along untroubled by the smell of the fast living or the rapture in its demand. A Little More is all we require, it is not greed, it is honest, a little more understanding, a little more accord, and a lot less presumption and overbearing lyrical dub masquerading as hypothetical political speech.

A wonderful single by Almost Autumn, a fearless portrait of a sound that beats with the kind and the fruitful.

Ian D. Hall