Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There will always be those that surround your life and look puzzled at The Situation that you have found yourself in, they cannot comprehend that life has more than just a few bumps in the road. They don’t see the crest of the sharpened wave, the depth of will it often takes to fathom out where the next step should be taken, nor do they ever give life a sideways glance and worry what will come out of nowhere, the body slam which will take you out of yourself, or which will propel you into the middle of a moment to which you can never repeat the high of.
For those that never see the crest or the potential downfall, they may seem on the face of it, fortunate, hardy, as if they have got the state of their being in place and nothing which can dislodge them from the even keel. In truth, they have no meaning in which to base their false positivity within, their talk of love is arguably groundless, dull, a manufactured condition to which no upset or greater glory can install the feeling of conquering Blues and sincere reflection.
For the modern listener not brought up on the collectivism of the likes of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters of Thin Lizzy, the name Snowy White will be lost in time, a true shame of the era in which we find ourselves in which the greats are passed over for the quick return, the mastery of their subject impatiently run aground for the position of the next find, soluble and far too easily explained. In Snowy White And The White Flames, what is created is indispensability, respect, a sense of occasion, and it is worthy of every second in which the listener takes to understand and savour.
Joining Snowy White on this latest album are the familiar faces and talents of Max Middleton, Ferry Langendrijk, Jessica Lauren, Kuma Harada, Walter Latupeirssam Juan van Emmerloot and Jeff Allen, a series of characters and players to whom the album is greatly enhanced with their inclusion and across songs such as This Feeling, Can’t Seem To Do Much About It, Blues In My Reflection, You Can’t Take It With You, Migration and The Lying Game the art of delicate nature is explored, one that comes out boldly, but with gentleness, with deep breathed fire and one that if you get too close too will be felt to singe your heart, gratefully and with the listener imploring for more.
An album of grace and completeness, The Situation is open, and all should apply to be in line to hear it.
Snowy White And The White Flames Release The Situation on April 19th.
Ian D. Hall