Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

No matter the state of the world, you can rely on music to bring you to a point where anything is achievable, where the voices that were thought to be silent, mute, hushed in their anger, are raised to the place where barriers are broken, where the noiseless find public outcry and opinion is against them.

The state of the world as we see it as we come to the end of this century’s second decade, is in flux, it hangs its head in shame at the actions taken by those we placed trust in, and those who should know better, it is the Blue Lights that will carry us hopefully from them, it is the Blue Lights that prove that Fiction Lies, that deceit will never prosper.

The unabashed and sincere, the ones to whom we must now seek to rectify such vipers and tarantulas in human skin, it starts with bands such as Fiction Lies, with a new single that is full of meat on the bone, a single that does not pull any punches and one that is unmistakably passionate.

For Rob McGuffin, Phil Gemmell, Michael Beatty and Chris Ashton, the frenzy and the rage has always been held in balance with the generosity of the tune, yet now underneath the music comes something new, the song is as good as ever, the structure of the refrain always pleasing. Now though there is a deeper light gathering strength, brewing a mighty explosion and it is one that is harmonious, creative and ready to take on those to whom blue is not enough, the ones that slip through all the colours that say stop, that suggest cease, desist and end the suffering.

With the fiction comes a reality, with the lies there must be the balance of restorative truth, Fiction Lies is here now to lay down some ground rules, and it is with a welcome smile that they come.

Ian D. Hall