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Track Listings
| 1. Big Black Hole |
| 2. These Days |
| 3. Come On |
| 4. Never See You Again |
| 5. Car Crash |
| 6. Think Again |
| 7. Love is an Action |
| 8. Cash Cow |
| 9. Wall of Sound |
| 10. See The Light |
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Whether Strummer would have approved of the characteristically slick, sleek and knowing production by Flood, is another matter, but The Hours have pulled a master stroke in getting him to helm See The Light. Get past the meticulously manicured surface and what's underneath is something refreshingly raw and passionate with a blistering warts-and-all honesty that cements the promise of 2007's Narcissus Road to emphatic effect.
Glen and Slattery react to Flood's nothing out-of-place production as if it were an act of deliberate provocation to their take-no-prisoners ambitions. If the revolution is to be televised, as forewarned in the Pulp-like glass-half-empty The Girl Who Had The World At Her Feet, See The Light will feature prominently in the soundtrack.
Gloves are off from the start, the bristling Ultravox-with-balls lead single Big Black Hole (a treatise on depression since you ask) merely hinting at what's to come. But for every blissed out glow lighters-in-the-air invitation like Come On there's the snarling, demented Doberman of the post-relationship Car Crash. And in between, the murky melancholy of Never See You Again and the bright malevolence of Love Is An Action. There's more than a nod to the dance floor throughout with Calvin Harris delivering a disappointing re-mix of the title track.
There's something epic about it all, but it's never less than pointed and personal as surfaces splinter and edges fray under Slattery's tsunami-like piano lines and Glen's perfect storm vocals. In all: heartfelt, honest and heady. --Michael Quinn
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See The Light and Whole World At Her Feet are stand out tracks.
A must buy!
Suffice to say that with See The Light, I was really looking forward to hearing how they'd moved things forward. Sadly, I am not sure that they have, instead they've kind of stayed in the same kind of territory, but with songs that don't quite have the clout of Narcissus Road.
I have listened through the album 4 or 5 times now, which might not sound like much, but bearing in mind the average number of listens to most new purchases is, er 1, I think I am in a position to judge.
Now, months after having writtin my first review, I have to say that as usual the quality of The Hours songwriting does start hitting the mark and that, surely is the best sign of quality songwriting. It is a strong record that gets better and better and I hope that in time, they get their just desserts.
That is to say, the success of a great band.
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