John Flanagan – There’s Another Way To Get Where You’re Going

Slow, constant and tinged with that sadness that feels natural and steady but not overwhelming. This melancholy rolls over the whole body from its connection in the brain, gently flowing for the duration of the album and for a little while after.

Nothing that makes the listener question themselves, or cry into their pillows or whatever soft items they have to hand. Quite the opposite, it is more like an acceptance, a contentedness with turned down corners.

Perhaps “There’s Another Way To Get Where You’re Going”. Perhaps a reminder of that fact with ten tracks to back it up and provide the soundtrack to those other ways, is just what the listener needs on an otherwise anxiety-riddled day.

One thing the album does in the midst of its boundless beauty is it makes the listener slow down and actually listen. (SP)

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