Peter Hammill has never seemed to be in a hurry to surrender to his followers’ expectations, and he’s not about to change such an approach even at seventy-seven, the age when anyone’s sense of mortality is apt to get heightened. Still, the British artist always demonstrated an uncanny ability to locate himself in sequential and spatial terms, from “Afterwards” onwards to here and now. It’s hardly surprising that the titles of the veteran’s last records – including “In Disequilibrium” and “In Translation” as well as a recent reissue of “In A Foreign Town” – contained the same preposition. And the “In” is also present in the title of his forthcoming album, although there’s an ambiguity about “Tears In Time” where the first word can mean different things and sound differently too.
