The first verse is about speaking to a friend who didn’t have a great situation at home and the second verse is about being apart from family and friends and the amount of tension and deliberation in the situation that created new fault lines and disagreements about global and government policy.” Frontman Rick Webster says of the track, written in lockdown about the pandemic, “I started to realise that the pandemic was becoming something pivotal… to be referred to in terms of ‘before’ or ‘after’ the pandemic. This is followed by the contemplative Before We Turned The World. The album begins with the title track, which we reviewed previously at Louder Than War:Ī song about being ignored by people and the fickle nature of the music industry. The band also worked with James’ Saul Davies on overdubs, drum rolls and tambourines at Saul’s Poolewe studio in Scotland. Invisible sees the five original members of Unkle Bob reunited to record the album at Foel Studios in Llanfair Caereinion in Wales and a village hall in Boldron near Barnard Castle. Sadly, Gavin isn’t around to hear this new album, which is arguably their most heart-wrenchingly beautiful album to date. The spellbinding dynamics hit the bull’s eye in the centre, like a turntable spindle going into a classic vinyl album. “Just imagine fellow Scots Teenage Fanclub doing full-tilt, hypnotic Neil Young-style razor rock. Just to set the scene, I will take a quote from the late, great journalist Gavin Martin, on the band. Unkle Bob return with Invisible, their magnificent first full-length album in eight years.
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