Description
The Things You Never Say is the sophomore album by the British singer and songwriter Andy Thornton, independently released in 1999. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered at ICC Studios in Eastbourne, England. Arrangements, programming, and engineering by Dave Lynch.
Featuring Andy Thornton on vocals and acoustic & electric guitars (as well as programming), backed by
Dave Lynch on piano and organ; Iain Archer on acoustic and electric guitars as well as lap steel guitar; Paul Wilkinson on electric slide & solo guitars; Steve Lawson on basses; and Mike Randon on drums; with Dave Birss sitting in on blues harp. Background vocals provided by Iain Archer and Miriam Kaufmann.
Despite being on the British CCM scene for rather a long lime, via Greenbelt, The Late Late Service and the late ’80s band Big Sur this is, I’m reliably informed, only Andy’s second album; his first, ‘Victims And Criminals‘ is still available from EIS on CD and cassette. This 13-track CD is 62 minutes and 10 seconds of wonderfully moody stuff; Andy is assisted musically by all sorts of people, including lain Archer and Miriam Kaufmann, and the whole thing was mixed and mastered al ICC Studios, so technically it’s first class. As regards the material, Andy says in the sleevenotes that he’s mildly embarrassed about the degree of angst on the album, and confesses that many of the songs were written in moments of struggle. Scanning the lyrics, I can see what he means! “I got beaten up the day she said she liked me, but we connect as friends/ Maybe I should settle for the idle chatter, once you say it’s more, you get shown the door” («She Won’t Talk To Me»); “I’m staring in an open sky; I’m wishing, but I don’t know why; some girl I’ll never see again has left me here in disarray…” («Confessing»). Even so, here are hopes and dreams amongst the pain and suffering, and whilst the Saviour’s name is never mentioned, Andy’s faith clearly manifests itself – “So send your waves upon my shore, send out your song to soothe me once more/ Lie in your wind till I am released, calling angels down/ I can’t wail another minute, heal me now” («Overtime Overground»). This is light years away from the fluffy candyfloss sort of music that sometimes passes for CCM, and Andy’s gritty vocals wring every shred of emotion out of the lyrics; I love it! Now you go and buy it. [Trevor Kirk, Cross Rhythms, February 2000]
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CD tracklist:
01. Home – 4:01
02. Heat Of Your Love – 4:55
03. She Won’t Talk To Me – 4:15
04. One Less Holy – 4:22
05. The Things You Never Say – 4:27
06. The Final Key – 5:39
07. Overtime Overground – 4:45
08. Hands Of Time – 4:08
09. Heartbeat In Everything – 6:08
10. World Gone Madness – 5:04
11. God Is Black – 4:08
12. Confessing (The Sight Of Beauty) – 4:46
13. I’m Not The Man – 5:22
Note: Available at Bandcamp: https://andythornton.bandcamp.com/album/the-things-you-never-say
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