“Britain can often feel like an awful place to be right now. A corrupt government brazenly trashes democracy on a daily basis, with the farcical partygate scandals continuing to engulf the establishment. It’s like a never-ending episode of The Thick Of It. Add to that a brutal pandemic, soaring energy prices and bands being fucked over by Brexit and you’ve pretty much got the perfect shitshow. To ”
“Veteran British rock sextet Sea Power (formerly known as British Sea Power) are a loosely defined type of band. And Everything Was Forever, their eighth album, is a time-slipping type of record. The ten tracks here unfold, almost unbroken, with a dreamlike momentum, laced with Sea Power’s distinct blend of stadium-sized weird rock, a sound that feels every bit as much U2 as it does Siouxsie and T”
“More than two decades into its career, the band formerly known as British Sea Power sounds newly energized, eagerly plotting new routes to familiar emotional peaks.”
