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A truth plainly ignored by many, is that life is about perspectives, the belief that your observation of an event is clearer and more succinct than that of someone else’s, that your version of love is somehow greater and more resounding than that of your neighbours, your friends, even that in which the object of your affections can muster.

The passionate will always find a way to outlive their fleeting devotions, their will to proclaim that “You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough” will always carry a larger proportion of truth than those that meekly surrender their own self-worth in the name of other’s vanity. It comes down to dignity, of being able to walk away with your head held high, even if inside your heart is breaking. It is a virtue that comes fully in the debut album by the Welsh alt-rock group, Estrons – You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough.

For some the decision to record an album may come too soon, the sound and feel of the band is far off from being one in which to carry the appreciation of the potential listener, one that will only be considered too much, too soon; the bubble in which is self-inflated, soon bursting, scattering droplets of regret splashing to cold, unforgiving concrete below.

Not so with Estrons, not so for the collective mind that encompasses Tali Kallstrom, Rhodri Daniel, Steffan Pringle and Adam Thomas together as a gratifying unit of music makers. Across songs such as Killing Your Love, Make A Man, Cameras, Jesus… and Aliens, the band capture an emotion of depth and sensitivity. One that could be considered dangerously illuminating, a track listing for the times we inhabit, one of determination to see the point of the argument hammered home in the face of hostility, one on which, quite rightly, people’s own self-worth is remembered and not put aside as one is expected for the sake of other’s profit.

You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough is the ability to remove the shackles of compliance and forced meekness, it is the reminder that we all are worthy of great things.

Ian D. Hall