Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The only way that a revolt, an uprising, will ever happen in this country is when we admit that we were all kept that little bit too comfortable to worry about rebelling. What is needed more than the unquiet death hallows of a bitter riot, a mutiny in which so many believe they can make political gain out of, what is actually required is a Revolution of Mind, a well thought repel of all that has been taught and regurgitated across the last couple of centuries in British classrooms.
A revolution with not a shot fired, but with pens poised and held aloft, with minds alert and ready to investigate and repulse enemy fire as the once powers that be take shelter in their pre-ordained ministries and right-on cafes; the orchestration of such a movement might fall into the hands of the ones who possess great insight, She Drew The Gun perhaps, delivering a verbal passage of musical poetry that is a delight to hear and one that fires deep into the valleys of ignorance.
The poetry is honest, it glides and soars like an owl scouting the hills, forests and dales below for the slightest movement of conformity, and with a pounce takes down misguided obedience, misplaced loyalty, for the owl can see far beyond our own depth, it can discern with subtly the slightest twitch of the nose of the mouse, the rat, that dares foul the floor with its unreserved agreement and in tracks such as Something for the Pain, Between Stars, Wolf and Bird, Dopamine, Human and the album title track Revolution of Mind, the psychedelic outpouring becomes hypnotic, evocative, rich, wonderfully terrifying and dangerous to the touch.
A Revolution of Mind, a transformation which doesn’t recoil at conversation, which isn’t scared of the possible upheaval that is inevitable, but sorely welcome, such is the case for She Drew The Gun, a template for the future, the agility to juggle words into strong, forceful bonds of agitation and anger. There must never be a reason in which a bullet needs to be shot, however for the revolution to succeed it may be that she should be prepared to f=draw the gun and be ready to be seen as the leader, the trailblazer.
Ian D. Hall