Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The illusion of the extra gained hour is such that most seem to adhere to the gift of time, being asleep, catching up, so they believe, with the pleasure of not being active in the world, taking no part, an unconscious objector to the flight of Time’s arrow for sixty minutes; such is their disdain for the symbolic gesture of cutting time from the top of the hourly sheet and sewing it back on the bottom that the appeal of Daylight’s Saving Hours would be lost upon them.
However, in the right hands, those that explore the time with the same sense of determination as they would when investigating the soul’s passion during the moments of twilight, the realm of the Daylight Saving Hours is the wide awake, those that see the world as more than an introverted state of mind, and who wish to comment on the worlds around them. Such is this feeling of being involved with the extra hour granted, that it is not unreasonable to understand why we throw such caution to the wind and step outside our own comfortable ways of living, the instant we reconnect.
Thomas Charlie Pedersen, the lead singer and guitarist of the Danish alternative Rock band Vinyl Floor, returns to his own space and time, as he succumbs once again to the beauty and dynamic afforded him in the occasion of the minimalist acoustic setting described so perfectly in Second Hand War.
However, this time it is in the acceptance of re-engagement that makes this album an even sweeter proposition in which to hold and as tracks such as The Meriwether Pull, the excellent observation and cynicism that is moulded in the track The World Is Not Your Oyster, The Witty Moniker, Blood Moon, Faithful Mistress and To A First Love leave their extensive raw mark on the listener’s mind; a deeply engaging love letter to time, but one not without a scathing look of disapproval.
In a world that greatly appreciates the dark, it is a shouldering of responsibility to believe you can shed light on the subject; it is a obligation met with insightful belief by Thomas Charlie Pedersen in Daylight Saving Hours.
Thomas Charlie Pedersen releases Daylight Saving Hours on February 7th.
Ian D. Hall