Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Things Can Change…we must believe that, for everyday for the better, sometimes for the worse, we are presented with the truth of those three words, the power of their conviction and their universality. The understanding that we are immersed into a large overwhelming society where there are people that will go out of their way to provide fear, loathing, and hatred in the hope that your life can spiral out of control, is to only love those whose heart explodes with meaning and sincerity more.
It is with hope that things can change for the better, but we must take some personal action to ensure it does, to beat the rotter’s and scoundrels by not giving them a quarter or the time, to listen carefully to heart and mind when our gut tells us something isn’t right, not just in the world, but your street, even in your own home, things can change, and it often takes just one song in a day to make peace and positivity a lifelong lasting event.
Miles Hunt, one of the Midland’s most enduring sons, takes time out from the sheer scope of work in his group dynamic, and presents an album that will blow fresh music air into the listener’s lungs, and with a conviction that is beautiful and sincerely welcome.
Things Can Change, and it with growth and perspective for the listener that Miles Hunt treasures the moment of each track on the new album as a fresh opportunity to inspire in a time of unhappiness for the nation, in a period where his fans, his friends, and all others who embrace the belief that nothing good can from evil being given reign, are fighting back against the tyranny of damage and fear.
With contributions on the album from the likes of Phil Hurley, Tim Sewell, Laura Kidd, Steve Gurl, and Billy Duffy, tracks such as Lucid Is As Lucid Does, And She Gives (For Laney), the glorious A Picture For A stranger, and Teen Valentinos, what Miles Hunt exemplifies is honour, that even in bad times when it is easy to take a route that leaves you unharmed by the world, its hypocrisy and anguish, it is better to be the protector of those who feel the abuse, than to stand alone in comfort.
A wonderful solo album by Miles Hunt, peaceful with intent, spoken pressures felt by all, appeased, and calmed; a pleasure of time spent in the company of a terrific songwriter. Ian D. Hall