Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Whilst nobody else watches us struggle with today’s angst and the shifting patterns of torment that comes from opening our heart to the world, we can take solace in that we ourselves believe our truth, that our cry, whether in silence and overwhelming tears, or in full throated declaration and an intent to shake the universe, the opportunity to change and be that man that says I Don’t Want To Be That Guy Anymore is one to be taken notice of, to be admired, to be respected.

It is the softly spoken admittance of the resolute that we seek to afford our own determination to do better, that as a man we search for a role model who understands their own foibles, the ways they have regretfully treated another, and we hope we can be as strong in our confession as that in which have looked to as our representative on stage.

John Jenkins has taken it with heart on his sleeve in a way that is honest, full of reminisce, a patience of growth, and an appeal to a better judgement that as one hell of a man and musician the listener might believe that he should not have the worry to express; but to which the perspective of his journey through tracks that thematically could not fit on the awesome Tuebrook album mean that this bold statement, this imploring of rejection of a flawed ideal, is to be heralded as one of the musician’s most endearing ever songs.

A stand-alone track can always be taken out of context, but this gentleman leaves nothing to chance, he pushes all his angst, all that fear, distress, need, and possible redemption into one beautifully produced single and comes out the other side with panache, style, and the release of salvation.

John Jenkins’ I Don’t Want To Be That Guy Anymore is out now.

Ian D. Hall