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If you are misplaced, there is a good chance it’s at the Lost and Found where you will be saved, especially as the clock turns between one day and the next, the moment in between Time which for a split second has the ability to turn a life upside down, which can make the difference between rationality and illogical thought and where dreams can morph into Midnight Fears.

Those Midnight Fears though are not always ones in which to truly dread, they may keep us up at night, but they also act as a ballast, a craft in which to play out every scenario and be aware of what may come; where the troubles of the world are exposed and magnified, but which then are ready to be fought with forewarning and lucidity.

It is to Midnight Fears that Bobhowla’s new single is to be explored and ultimately enjoyed, the slumber of the year dismissed and instead the vivid dreams are realised and found to be guarding a realm that Morpheus himself could not breach, and in this first release from the upcoming debut album Everything’s Wrong, But It’s Alright, Bobhowla exemplifies the notion of confronting those fears and by doing so, making them silent, still, invisible to all but those that are in need of comfort by the way you defeated the enemy. 

Midnight Fears, an elusive and perplexing intruder who knows not the boundaries it is crossing as it steals away your lucid dreams; however, Bobhowla are an exciting find, ready to do battle, to pick up the sword of industry and keep the nightmares at bay. For in this new release, and in the album to come, there is a dignity and favour to which understanding of the needs of the listener to which they have come to enhance and serve.

A charming and passionate new single, Midnight Fears is a cut above.

Bobhowla’s Midnight Fears is out now.

Ian D. Hall