Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There was a time when you could measure your life by the expectancy of how your weekend shaped up on its second day. For many Sunday was at the best of times dull, routine, a moment where on the Saturday night you might, if you were able to, hear the moans of a nation realise in beige coloured horror that the least engaging day of the week was upon them, and that the vaunted day of rest was to be endured, and that their parents would be asleep on the coach by midday and the spectre of family dinner would soon rear its head.
Sundays, by any stretch of the imagination were never a day to think of in positive terms, not if you craved excitement, not if you lived in the villages, out in the sticks where fun was something that happened only to those who lived their lives under the neon signs and glow of industrial imagination.
Yet Another Sunday Comes, and time has made provisions for such greatness, valuable insight, and stirring memory and in Only Child’s last single before the release of their brand-new album, Straight Lines, it is the softness, the gentleness of the voice that makes the heart appreciate the time we once had, when actually physically had the time to do nothing, to be easy, to lounge and laugh, to be with our loved ones without being dragged into the game of life, the one that was taken from us when Sunday became another day of the week.
Alan O’ Hare doesn’t just invoke the memory by playing softly with his vocals, he turns the feeling into one of contentment, even in the knowledge of how hectic and often trouble inducing the day has become, we can still find that one pleasurable tiding to makes the finality of the weekend worthwhile, a hug from a loved one who is missed, the simplicity of the sun rising and the clouds being urged to move on; it is to this when Another Sunday Comes we think of in our minds, and long may the joy of Alan O’ Hare and Only Child be a sizeable part of it.
A single that knows how to nourish the soul, not by injecting a false hope and expediency, but with charm, grace, the underpinning of humility, for when Another Sunday Comes, let’s hope we all find the worth in being immersed in it and not being used by the counterfeit actions of money driven entertainment.
Only Child headline The Music Room inside Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on March 18th where they will launch the brand-new album, Straight Lines.
Ian D. Hall