The superficial feel of a day merging into the next is highlighted more in December.
The few short hours in which the remaining, decaying leaves on the ground
deposit their skid-like dead mark forever in the winter blasted ember,
only to be eaten away by the snow and harshness of the chilling, frost biting sound.
December is the widow of our years.
It fights for all its worth against the final reckoning,
but it knows that soon, very soon, it will sleep forever and in no more tears
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The latest release by Hertfordshire band Shadowlight, the superb sounding Twilight Canvas, carries on in the same excellent form that James Hodkinson and Mark Wilson showed in the exceptional E.P. Winter.
Where the band have improved, if that is indeed possible with Shadowlight, is the addition of extra personnel in the form of Ed Williamson-Brown and Paul Collins on bass and drums respectively, the album oozes a quality that rarely gets heard on a debut album but then the foundations of the band were sown long ago with the musical partnership of James and Mark. It is perhaps a shame for any new fan coming into the band on the back of the E.P. or this new album that there isn’t a catalogue to explore. However the sounds they create on this debut signals the start of something very extraordinary.