Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is always about Time, the upbeat song that has you dancing with strangers at three in the morning, the melancholic pulse that finds an audience during the daylight hours as others play and frolic, shout, scream with excess, whilst the chosen few finds solace in the temperament and the quiet heartbeat of a person finding the words accurate enough to show their raw and human emotions.

Time is the framework of the universe, the flash in the eye of a life, the beauty we cannot truly master; and for Alan Triggs it is the soul delivering a final whisper of attention, love, respect, and duty to the passing of one to whom without his life arguably could have taken a different, less meaningful purpose.

Respect comes in many forms, a quiet word in the ears who disparage others, correcting the misinformed as they go, for many it is just being deferent to the memory of the living and the brief lives they may have led. For some though art of any fashion is the offering of the truly regardful, and in Time, Alan Triggs has created a single that not only speaks to the listener of the trials and tribulations of loss, of the hardship involved in the process of letting go, but of the immensity that the heart shoulders, the sense of somewhere in the cosmos a song can still reach the ashes of all that has gone before and spark a renewal in the faith of the living spirit.

Alan Triggs successfully weaves his way through this complex arrangement of sound and emotional exploration and loyalty, each note is played as though it is in itself a message, a prayer, and its end result is one of fealty to the lost and the heartbroken; a sense of power resurgent as the names of those we miss are honoured and given breath.

A single of compelling belief, wrapped up in a sound that is majestic and hard hitting.

Ian D. Hall