The Sound: From The Lion's Mouth
Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 31 October 1981
THE SOUND'S second LP carries on where Jeopardy, their first, left off, with a search for contact or (non-religious) communion of some kind. It's a simple hope, expressed with deceptive simplicity, but then the present-day socially aware rock'n'roll group-refuses to die when things get tough. What some may see as pessimistic wallowing is actually a confrontation and shaking-off of despondency, a determination to face facts rather than hide in escapism. As the single 'Sense Of Purpose' would have it, it's "a call to arms, a call to use arms/ a call to brains, a call to use some brains/ a call to the heart, a call to have a heart/ to have a sense of purpose again." Simple, see?
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