The Slow Rush Review

Nobody makes a record sound like this. The drums have a physical thump that most producers spend careers chasing, the pianos are enormous, and there is a confidence to the low end that suggests a man who now knows exactly which knob to turn. The problem is what sits on top. Borderline and Lost in Yesterday are proper songs with hooks that stick. Posthumous Forgiveness is the emotional centre, a two part address to a dead father that shifts from anger to grief halfway through, and it is the best writing on the album by a wide margin.

Elsewhere the theme, time passing, is stated repeatedly rather than explored, and several tracks arrive at a groove and simply stay there for five minutes. It is lovely to have on and hard to hold in your head afterwards. A record made with total technical command and slightly less to say than the two before it, which is a decent problem to have and still a real one.