Take the time to reflect. Sit a moment with your sadness. Watch a drop of condensation snake its way down a window pane. Imagine the route it will take, the direction it will travel, and observe its path. It seems to be going where you hoped. Until it wobbles, and shakes, and takes a different path entirely. As the solitary droplet reaches its end and spills across the window ledge, you’re left with a question; what now?
‘Did You Ask To Be Set Free?’ is not the record As Everything Unfolds would ever have wanted to make. Tragically, they lost their drummer Jamie Gowers before its production. They could have walked away. They could have taken their memories and let them lie. But they haven’t. Instead, they have regrouped, and in deciding to look to the future, they have made their strongest album so far.
Understandably, it’s impossible to talk about this record without the circumstances of its creation. Any decision must have been difficult and there was no ‘correct’ choice. In...
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