{"id":18357,"date":"2018-05-11T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T16:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=18357"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:34:46","slug":"artist-of-the-month-brad-dear-and-the-march-when-the-world-wakes-up-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/artist-of-the-month-brad-dear-and-the-march-when-the-world-wakes-up-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIST OF THE MONTH: BRAD DEAR AND THE MARCH &#8211; &#8216;When The World Wakes Up&#8217; &#8211; Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><strong>BUY THE ALBUM HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;When the World Wakes Up&#8217; is a very apt title for this album. Both musically, and lyrically. Straight from the start of<em> \u2018Sail Away\u2019<\/em>, a banging fiddle (at least I think it&#8217;s a fiddle) serenades your eardrums. And then Brad directs his social commentary into your side noise receivers, pumping your brain and cochlea\u2019s\u00a0full of joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plus it\u2019s the perfect music to dance to when you\u2019re a bit pissed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album press release shares some of the stories that inspired the songs on this record &#8211; from breaking out of your small town (&#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special Brew&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), finding purpose (&#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Only Road I Know&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), life&#8217;s characters (&#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billy Brown&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), through to the refugee crisis (&#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Save Our Souls&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), coming together (&#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walls&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), realising what you have (&#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Festival Bar Blues&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and glasses raised to departed friends (&#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leave it All Behind&#8217;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s quite a mixture &#8211; but a beautiful one &#8211; like a posh cocktail from Black Market Warsop or somethin\u2019 like that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brad is a great songwriter and performer on his own &#8211; but when The March join him &#8211; it becomes a proper family affair. As in the good kind, not the sleeping with your sister kind. Anyways &#8211; Lizzie Morris, Chris Reed and Andy Hogg, all bring an edge of raw musical beauty to this record, which means it somehow sounds like a raucous live bootleg, and a super slick studio record, all at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we\u2019re sure these songs are going to sound absolutely monstrous at festivals all over Summer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, err, why don\u2019t ya march on down and buy the record?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*tumbleweed*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yours in Love of New Music,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Nahirny x<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUY THE ALBUM HERE. &#8216;When the World Wakes Up&#8217; is a very apt title for this album. Both musically, and lyrically. 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