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Review: 'We Signal Fire'
'When the World Starts to Break (EP)'   


-  Genre: 'Rock'

Our Rating:
The story behind the inspiration for this EP is a harrowing one, namely a traumatic for We Signal Fire’s main songwriter, Pete Clough.

The band recount the story thus:‘He became acutely ill because doctors took him off long-term medication. As a result, he lost half his bod weight, became very weak and lost his ability to walk. The doctors refused to put him back on the mediation and he had to fight to get them to do anything whilst they were abusive in their care towards him, spending four years in hospital until eventually being put back on the medication. The lyrics are about the fight to get through it all…’

There’s no doubting the degree of emotion that’s been poured into the creation of the found songs featured here. The guitars twist and turn and flex. With Pete and Chloe Houston’s dual vocals, ‘We Can Be the Change’ sounds more like Fleetwood Mac than any of the band’s favoured reference points. It’s no bad thing, but the vocals are disproportionately high in the mix. There’s a grungy heft to the guitar riff on the title track, with clean, picked verses providing the dynamics of contrast. The strong vocal melodies are matched by the anguish the two singers pour into them, making it a real standout.

If ‘We Are’ comes on a bit like a post-rock tinged Twin Atlantic, it’s still a fair to middling pop song, and ‘Just When Life Breaks Us’ builds to a finale brimming with emotion worthy of the biggest power ballad.

It’s a bold set, well-executed and impassioned. Pete Clough is clearly a fighter and a survivor, and We Signal Fire channel that spirit admirably.


  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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We Signal Fire - When the World Starts to Break (EP)