Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Not everything in life is planned, not every riot, act of disobedience or the undertaking of insubordination is to be thought of as premeditated. Neither is the act of impulse in which words flow and the music plays around like a pack of wild animals, eager to be let loose upon the world and to dominate the thoughts of those with enquiring minds and bountiful imagination, the lyrics acting like a general, the pack leader whose pride brings him satisfaction as the stumble by chance upon a way to change the world; for The Unintended Rebellion is always one that hits the headlines more.
For Hegarty, The Unintended Rebellion is one that soars high, kicks out at the flesh eating drums of mediocrity and the beige and offers a kind of solution to the tired and the wasted patterns that seem to infect other parts of the world but thankfully still remain small in number enough to never be a nuisance, yet vigilance is a watchword much underused and the rebellion against the beige and staid must always be on the march.
The four songs that make up the E.P. are of gorgeous quality, they are approachable, willing to be opened up and explored and played with like new born kittens whose tiger savage teeth have not yet broadened, yet through each lyrical repose and musical insightfulness, the teeth are there hiding, waiting, salivating over the next meal and the tracks are like the web of a bulbous spider, temptation into the unknown a quarry that requires feeding and with passion.
From Black & White, Time On Our Hands, Redemption Can’t Be Found and Broken Soul, David Hegarty, Marty Nini, Waka Staffo, Ian Cousins and Chris McKeown all offer that temptation of spirit, the intrigued, the positive and the downright understanding will survive and grow, the eternal pessimist and the nervous never listen to anything new will somehow end up as bait. For in the realms of music, new music and the offer of the ongoing, rebellion is a price worth paying, unintended or not and for some the price is too high, their beige running loose. For the rebellious at heart, music is what music does and Hegarty provide the ammunition with skill and poise.
A marvellous E.P., perhaps too easy to say that the full length album cannot come too soon!
Ian D. Hall