Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is not until we lose our sense of self determination, our sense of objectivity and the gaining of certainty in troubled times that we understand that There Must Be More To Life Than This, the illusion we have allowed ourselves to walk into, blindfolded and with the promise of greater things, but without ever seeing those vague spoken promises come to anything but dust today and jam forever in the years to come.

Every generation has faced their own moment, the sense of fear and the troubles of the world upon their shoulder, it is to the connected world, the want of making it better, healing ourselves and hoping that the planet can forgive is that the hope in the phrase There Must Be More To Life Than This comes into its own, and for Hegarty that idiom, that slogan of the down beaten and the damned, the oppressed and the encouraged, becomes a knock at the door of dreams, of demand, not a weakly delivered pleading from the gallery, but one delivered, as Hegarty is apt to do, with the full force of pressure and conviction behind them.

There has often been a sense of the quiet heroic nature about the band, a sense of serenity weaving its way through the anger of the sights they witness, a beauty in the maelstrom and whirlwind of the indulgence forced upon us all, by design, by circumstances, and yet in this new single, they have gone one stage further, they are tackling with more overtness and timely interference the problems of the day, and even in a song which has the sweeping gesture of subtle yearning embedded within it, it is to be thankful that there will always be the revolutionary mind driving such a band, such a song, along.

Hegarty insist that there is a better way to be found, they are not wrong, for life without change, is no life at all.

Ian D. Hall