Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Keeping time is essential, always running behind the clock leaves you stressed, being punctual is the height of good manners; such is the demand of etiquette, a hangover from previous generations that didn’t understand the occasion is sometimes too overwhelming for some and for them to process, that the individual is not regimented by time.
Quite often, not being in time is a saviour, a grace to which our hearts thanks our internal clock for saving them from heartache, to witness someone that you love leaving for foreign shores, knowing full well that had you not pondered over the lack of communication, not told them how you truly felt, they might never depart, they might never experience a real love in the arms of another.
Fiction lies, it always insists that the moment will come and they will see you hurrying down the road, the cobbled wharf, tangled up in the masses, avoiding security hell bent on stopping you from your one purpose of declaring to the moon and back your feelings. The truth, in which Ellesmere Port’s Fiction Lies extenuate with great ferocity, as well as a depth of musical sadness, is that sometimes it is a finer attribute to be Just In Time (To Be Too Late), to see them in the distance and to not be observed in return.
The four-piece return in blistering style in their new single Just In Time (To Be Too Late), another chapter, another sense of preciseness in which their own time is to be valued, to be respected. The band have always played to their absolute strengths and it is with honour that they continue to drive home their message with esteem, with a sense of treasured beauty, whilst all the time picking at the soul of those who cannot see, who are blind to the experience, that tremendous worth.
A single to round of a year in which Fiction Lies have continued to bite down hard on the neck of other’s apathy, a delight of a song, one that is appreciated by those who have come to understand that the band offer a bounty of desired brilliance.
Fiction Lies will be performing at Evil Eye in Wavertree, Liverpool, on November 24th.
Ian D. Hall