Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Even those who decided early in school that the science lab was not for them will always appreciate that Chemistry is a human emotion worth savouring as well as a means to solving complex problems that plague humanity on a daily basis. Chemistry is what gives us meaning, the connection between worlds, of understanding, and admiring what makes the mind, the soul, and the heart such an unstoppable force when it fuses all the beliefs and dreams, they are capable of unleashing on the universe.

Chemistry binds that which was isolated and solitary, it melds in a way that brings out the finest in those willing to speak to the universe on their own terms, their investigations and reasonings at the fore front of exploring what it means to connected.

For Decommissioned Forests, it is the signal that their third album is one of fierce pride, a direct plan that covers from cause to effect with the sheer strength of poetic vision and noirish landscapes welded together in such a way that Howard Gardener, Max Rael, and Daniel Vincent could be seen as the flawless interpretation, the crossover between performance and structure is complete; and with relish.

Chemistry is not an illusion, it is based on fact as much as it is scientific instruction, and as each spoken, dramatic piece is given its moment, so the chain reaction of symphony endures. Whether in the tantalising Goodbye To The Cloud People, Black River Falls, the symbolic nature of cross purposes and other lives in Another Version Of You, the brilliance of All Is Vanity and Theme For A Problematic Era, or even the sway the finale, The Dust, Decommissioned Forests strike home once more with a belief that is infectious, a sense of the grandstanding poetry device, and the attraction of empathy.

For it is in the harmony of the unlikely that understanding the very behaviour of all that matters, and Decommissioned Forests do matter, they are a foundation to which we become attracted to because their nature is one of truth.

Chemistry is a belief, and one that is high on passion and delivery as the threesome once more prove that communication is the building block of understanding. Ian D. Hall