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Phil Hare, A Stranger I Came. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is such that the sound of an unfamiliar outsider makes their presence known, we can often be forgiven for recoiling at the outlandish oddity of their voice, the startle in which the mind refuses to comprehend, the feeling of disconcertment when their phrases shake your beliefs and the shutters and the walls start to begin to appear between you and them.

Phil Hare, The Twilight Tone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It takes a lot of courage to take the poetry of W.H. Auden, arguably one of Britain’s finest 20th Century poets, and turn it into a Folk song of equal and impressive strength, then for Phil Hare nothing it seems is impossible to play with, to give a slice of extra soul too, and as he enters The Twilight Tone that exists between good natured ambience and angry response, that marriage of emotions is beautifully crafted and well preserved, an almost symbiotic relationship that just keeps giving.