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Helen Maw: Shadows. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We fear that which holds our shape but not our image when we are younger; even in adulthood we perhaps feel an unnerving comfort when we stand underneath a streetlight or pass by the reflected light of the moon above us, for in those Shadows there is a weightless buoyancy, a tether, not to Earth but to a realm where the rules are inverted, where life is given a different edge, one hopeful of softness, or a rougher edge in which the connection is cut loose and the spirit beside us set free.