Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The Truth Comes Out Eventually, the only difference between ruin or embarrassment and that of relief and possibly even acceptance is how it is presented to the masses; and for that we must be seen to offer ourselves up as examples of repentant honesty, admitting where our heart may lay, what art we aspire to bring to the world; but never once apologising for the opportunity to lay our souls bare.
We all must yearn for the significance that comes with emotional release, we must maintain value in soul, and truth, whilst always repeated through a person’s own interpretation, is always, if produced with sincerity, to be haunting and faithfully encompassing.
Connor Selby’s voice, his emotional resonance is such that in his brand-new album the listener is drawn into a world where isolation and seclusion are part of the narrative, a hark bark perhaps to the start of the decade where we were thrown into a whirlwind of turmoil which released hidden and unspoken truths to ourselves, our pent-up psyche, and the lack of being part of society.
Truth comes with the ability to reconcile our voices with that of the void we are told to experience, and if we can do so in art then we have an opportunity of growth, of evolution and as the glittering c.v. that he has rightfully managed to cultivate and nurture shows his grit and seething cool and as tracks such as All Out Of Luck, I Won’t Be Hard To Find, Amelia, It Hurts To Be In Love, What Else Is There To Say, and the album title track of The Truth Comes Out Eventually frame the emotional calm and confidence in storytelling and release.
To follow up the excellent self-debut album in 2023 with such a devastatingly beautiful recording is one of certainty, is one of dramatic legitimacy, of admitting that we all require help, that we can ask to be seen when our mental health is failing and understand that someone will see the truth pouring out of us.
A wonderful example of poetic truth that has uncaged and set free a philosophical human experience.
Connor Selby releases The Truth Comes Out Eventually on August 29th via Provogue.
Ian D. Hall