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The dark is at times comforting, a place in which to feel the warmth of another with more intent, where secrets are whispered, where traumas are held with a sense of symbolic belief, but no matter the comfort felt, the dark is a place of mutual blindness, a gesture of impaired attraction; for when we can’t see the light, the information becomes skewed, it is reliant on the trust imparted at the time, when the dark had us in its thrall.

Can’t See The Light or facing anxiety that even finding the light switch of illumination that leads to discovery, at times what we lack is the measure of reveal that allows us to actively find the means in which to communicate and examine all that we might lose in return for a moment in the bright glare of reality.

Not all of us have the means to convey such feelings, we might struggle on, co-existing, never quite placing a finger on the reason or the switch to set us free, but in the form of Bibby, that communication is not only visible, aurally evident, it is tender, understandable, there is no sign of drama or fear, but there is illumination and as his new single, Can’t See The Light, plays out, what the listener feels is akin to power, to salvation, a discerning voice that refuses to use rhetoric, but instead a simple language, one of truth but without the side effects of toxicity.

It is in that language that Bibby’s words flow like gentle water, one headed serenely past the bank of indecision, and into the heart of the listener; and by doing so leaves more than an impression, it becomes an imprint, sizeable, substantial, on how to leave a mutual bond formed in the dark whilst not leaving the other behind out of spite or fear.

A cracking single, one to which Bibby’s voice, temperament, and ability audibly reigns supreme. 

Ian D. Hall