My Review: The Churchhill Garden - Always There

 My Review:

The Churchhill Garden - Always There 

Year of grace 2022

Location: Lucerne, Switzerland

What happens: the return of the magician Andy and the fairy Krissy.

The world decays, deliberately falls apart, destroys values and creates new ones but difficult to understand, at least for the scribe.

Then Krissy makes it okay: she does not forget the sacredness of friendship and writes a hymn, words with heart and mind connected to show that feeling remains precious, it moves the world towards beauty and concreteness.

Andy is in a state of grace: as always, more than ever. After giving us shoegaze flames enveloped in infinitely fragrant melodies with Grounded, here he is back with a track that reveals how complexity can be turned into a nourishing and strong smile, with a journey of sparks which brings time back into the condition of being embraced. I'm not interested in detecting or not detecting some references that may or may not have been intended by Andy himself to some bands: what I breathe in this sound collage is his talent in making his art above comparison, in pushing his sound poetry to travel beyond the stars, in giving our breaths confidence.

And so we find guitars able to send shivers down your spine clinging to notes that operate the heart, an enthralling succession of clusters of light. And those who think shoegaze has lost substance and possibilities for development have to be kind enough to look at this universe of sinuous curves, with a precise direction in every second: they will feel reassured and find tears to bless these 274 seconds of contagious dreaming.

The song conveys endless sensations, Krissy's vocals become pills of magic, the story described comforts and consoles, and we find ourselves with this painting on our feet slowly dancing, while the guitar surrounds our emotional state, compacting with a rhythm that with the refrain seems to launch us towards new paths. 

And what happens at the end? That we realise that Music, our great friend, provides us with special people like Andy and Krissy, so that we can exalt our good fortune.

Always There is the voice of a need that has to be recognised, brought into the deep sea of our every gesture to connect with everything else. Andy creates the miracles in Lucerne and the fairy Krissy expands them: life is wonderful with The Churchhill Garden!

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

15th July 2022

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