Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Having an attitude is not only essential but indispensable to having your story, your life, being expressed in the right way. There is no relief to be found in being meek even if you inherit the world and the wind, only the damage that timidity and mild voice can bring; nobody should reconcile for less, no one should settle for less than they are worth, Settle For More, demand that your voice be heard at all times.
Eyes Of Tomorrow don’t profess sweet sentiment and the double meaning, masters of the hardcore expression and the truth of their delivery always in full flow, their new album, Settle For More, is a reminder that away from the light lyrics favoured by many as they urge you to be better than you are, whilst never really capturing their own soul as they depend on an army of staff and operators to make their message palatable, Eyes Of Tomorrow resolve to use honesty, devoting themselves to exploding the minds of the listener and offering the desire for critical thinking, of using the brain to function outside of the established, and quite often disturbing, norms.
Not just songs but epics in their own time, Eyes Of Tomorrow’s State of Mine, the excellent Blinded By Greed, Hate, Lies & Violence, Take My Life and My PMA capture the artisan and the artist in tandem, the undertaking of determination and resolution being merged in a swirl of emotional feedback that makes this album simply one to be played loud and without apology.
It is in that unapologetic, but supremely mindful of its physicality and persuasive outlook, that Eyes Of Tomorrow urge the listener on in a setting of joyous destruction of the senses, an open punch but one that is not designed to subjugate, but rather to hopefully knock sense into those who deny others the opportunity to be better than they are, to be radical, to be amazing.
Don’t look back at what might have been, instead set your eyes on tomorrow, sight your sight on not asking, but to Settle For More.
Eyes Of Tomorrow release Settle For More on December 4th via Swell Creek Records.
Ian D. Hall