Nicktape 8, Impossibly Subjectiveby Spring Offensive |
***Cross-reference with: XI, We Call Upon the Author to Explain
1. With ‘Stagger Lee’ you demonstrated your ability to fully embody a character while conveying a narrative...
2. In ‘Henry Lee’, you showed us the richness of perspectival diversity in storytelling…
3. We ourselves have experimented with introducing distinct voices in a song entitled ‘Every Coin’...
4. ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ offers a narrative characterised by a completeness of infinite repetition…
5. …we find in ‘Up Jumped the Devil’ a similar sense of inevitability to that found in the Ballads.
6. In ‘The Mercy Seat’ you convey an unshakeable sense of finality in your speaker’s destiny…
7. ‘Get Ready for Love’ puts one immediately at ease through the bald confidence of its swagger…
8. The same shortcoming permeates the third track on the album, ‘Hiding All Away’.
9. …the apocalyptic and booze-ridden video for ‘Tupelo’.
10. In ‘Abattoir Blues’ you ask us: “Do you see what I see?”
11. And you make the question exquisitely personal, something that was apparent in the energy of your performance of ‘We Call Upon the Author’ at London’s St Luke’s church.