Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *
To live Without The Fear one must surely have confronted the demons in the mind and found them to be lacking substance, to have laughed at the inconsequential and witnessed fear shrink and become nothing more than a nuisance to be scolded in much the same way that we hold the same measure of account and disdain to ignorance. These twin monsters, if left unchecked, sap at the strength and will, and then as the Siren’s Song is enticingly heard and grasped for in an effort to be saved, fear can be seen to become overwhelming and bitter.
Without fear though, we have no gauge in what we will accomplish in an effort to defeat it, what we will prove to others where are standards and our hearts lay, where the dreams in which we wish to follow and the dragons we will slay will fall.
In the surroundings of the ethereal we perhaps hear the Siren’s Song with greater clarity, and for Rachael Dunn and Shaun Lancely, the Siren’s Song is lucid, a projection of reason wrapped up in the luminosity of music, the lightness of vocals but going into battle with an arsenal that can only be found at the end of well performed guitar, a stability surrounded by the warning to be taken heed of, that Siren’s Song can be a force for good and away from the alarm and sailor’s dread in seafaring folklore and mythology.
It is in the serenading combination of both Ms. Dunn and Mr Lanceley that this debut single comes alive, the fair warning given, the evoking of the song with its entailed mystery and insightful dream-like quality threaded throughout as if being weaved from an infinite golden fleece which is attached to an inexhaustible spinning wheel.
Without The Fear, to come through all that has beset you and which now you realise was small and only blown up out of proportion, that is the best response to which the Siren slowly draws you to safety, away from the sharp rocks of distress and trepidation and with the greatness in which only Rachael Dunn and Shaun Lanceley can bring to your ears.
Ian D. Hall