Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Living rent free is an aspiration, or a curse that resides in the mind when others leave an imprint that causes you doubt your own sense of self, or the heart that you know is spotless.
It will always be preferable to live rent free from those who seek to speak of negative demons invisibly down your ears as you stare into the mirror of your self-conscious, and that Troxler, the trickster not only requires defeating, but eradicating from each connective misfire corrected. For upon the shoulders of giants we are not only able to see further, but we are closer to the blue skies of rational thought, and the rent-free belief, thanks to artists such as Euan Blackman becomes utterly convincing, and apparent.
Euan Blackman’s latest E.P., Rent Free On My Brain, is a calming antidote to the stress of modern times. It is the belief of fortune tied to the aspect of being your own creator, of dispelling that which holds you back, and turning your own mind into a shelter, a place of safety whilst allowing introspection to be genuine and not a stick in which to wave in public and be a weapon against your own soul.
To be rent free, an aspiration then, to let your demons to be cast out and scattered; for it just takes a song to push the rumours of discourse far from the brain, and as Mr. Blackman nurses the sublime from his Liverpool home in the tracks The Ballad Of A Broken Machine, Burn, Number One Hit Song, and The Last One, so the craft of industry speaks in soft tones, urging you to fight on, but also insisting that you are worthy. Worthy of what exactly is up to the soul of the listener, but to have a giant in your corner compelling you to keep going, to listen with every fibre in your mind and heart is a relief and a blessing to be held by.
A remarkable talent, Euan Blackman is an elemental of self-belief and action.
Euan Blackman releases Rent Free On My Brain on January 26th. Ian D. Hall