As I currently sit, drinking endless coffee in a Wetherspoons because it’s cheaper than drinking endless coffee in my own place with the current energy crisis you’d be hard pressed to find a better soundtrack than Brighton based sextet Sea Power’s seventh album “Everything Was Forever”

The album is dark and moody in all the right places but it still has the indomitable strength to pull you from those dark rainy British days to better times, in festival fields with your buddies and San Miguel flowing through your veins like an absolute titan of serotonin, with heavy hitters such as “Transmitter” and “Fire Escape at Sea” it’s easy to miss the message but it’s a very poignant way of saying “we’re a bit screwed here lads aren’t we?”

It’s not often that a band gets to their seventh release and still has a lot to offer, but the level of complexity displayed on “Everything Was Forever” along with Yan and Neil’s alternating vocals makes me excited to leave the rainy throes of a North Wales winter and look longingly to festival season and as a first time listener of Sea Power, I’m very excited to see what they bring to 2023.

Robert Joseph
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