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.
Fans need to wait until September 25th, however, to hear what Hammill meant – yet it should be worth the anticipation, given it will have been more than five years since this platter’s predecessor “In Translation” saw the light of day. Scan the songs’ list, and an intrigue is set in place – and in time.
Tears In Time
1. For A Rainy Day
2. The Wheels
3. Heavy Weather
4. Angle Of The Curve
5. So Much Water
6. Tabula Rasa
7. Oh The End
8. Red Flags (In The Sunset)
9. You’ll Never Know
10. The Half Of It
11. And When He Ran
