Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We look upon failure as an ending, and not as we should as the chance to begin again, too often even the thought of other’s opinions, though weighty and well meaning they may be, can have us careering down a path, fuelled by excessive self-doubt and insecurity, and it is often driven by the feeling of what we have lost; not the tangible, the physical, or even the definite, but the construct, the evidence of the corporeal that brings meaning to that which we create.

What You’ve Lost Isn’t Failure, it is recognition that the evidence of pursuing an even greater goal is now within reach. A lost passage that thought was saved, a memory forgotten, a story overlooked, all can be brought to life and given a finer understanding because time has urged it to be so; and the same applies for time itself, as an entity we see it as either a friend, or something to fear, the moments wasted in struggle, when we could just find a way back, as the magnificent Bobhowla have done, to creating success where failure fears to tread.

It may have been longer than the band may have anticipated but as tracks such as the opener Killing Time, Needed Somewhere Else, Decision To Own, Movements Made, and the thrilling cool supplied in the finale Pull The Trigger (Now Run), the guile and depth that Howard Doupe and the group bring all the necessary emotion and feeling to the present day; Time may have been lost, but it is soon regained, and with aplomb and the warmest of hearts.

To follow on from the superb Everything’s Wrong, But It’s Alright could have been seen as a tall ask, but as with everything that the band generate in the form of cool and groove, what is presented is a celebration of crucial power of the everlasting.

A marvellous return to the listener’s ear, Bobhowla find triumph waiting for them.

Ian D. Hall