Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
People will tell you a story for two different reasons, one is to exact a sense of sympathy, the other is to inform and display understanding; however, your words are taken though in the end cannot be down to your expression and sense of truth, but in the way the recipient feels the tale resonates with their own experience or their belief in you.
A story told well though is treasure, regardless of its emotional content, it is the value of all the jewels and trinkets placed inside a chest and buried in sand for years; gold after all will only provide fortune…a tale told with passion and vivid imagination will be the comfort and wealth of a finer, more alluring belief in life.
To be afforded the honour of placing a hand on your heart and sincerely being appreciated for revealing that which gives your soul reason is to relish saying I Told You A Story and it was mine; a moment to which the world makes sense because history has been involved as if by magic, and it is to the magnificence of the artist who enjoys the sentiment of the chance to offer a debut to that world that Pete Lambert engages and compels with charm and pleasure and authentic-lived in-existence.
I Told You A Story is that best of resolutions, it is filled with empathy, it is spirited and controlled, but has within the capacity to change a heart, and as songs such as Never Die, Drink To The End, Without Whisky, Long Shadow, and the album title track of I Told You A Story, so the movement of subtle and personal words climb from the depth of the Yorkshire soul within, so the influence of Country, Folk, and Americana hit home, bursting out with a calm exuberance that is enough to thrill those willing to take a seat, sit back, and join in the essence of a link of tales well sung.
With wonderful contributions Alex Victoria, Emily Lawler, Joshua Burnell, Rachel Brown, Sam Jackson, and Bella Gaffney, I Told You A Story is the kind of album is at its heart the resounding character we need to focus upon to rejoin the conscious of humanity; a place not of obsession over jewels, land and monetary wealth, but the treasure of listening to another soul’s chronicle of life.
Pete Lambert releases I Told You A Story on August 30th via Broken Chair Records.
Ian D. Hall