Protect and Survive - Side Two

Up now.

Individual track blah in a bit...

Protect and Survive - Side One

All that stuff below is my increasingly non-cryptic way of saying Redpoint's debut album, Protect and Survive is at last out in the wild.

Well, one half of it. Side 2 to follow, next week.

Go here to download.

From my perspective, P&S is an attempt to recall/resolve all those hopes, fears and churning paranoias that squatted on my shoulders from childhood up to early adolescence (that's the shabby simplicity of the mid-to-late '70s and the Cold War cold-sweats of most of the '80s).

Mashed in with that is the psychological uproar of fatherhood and how my kids rewired me to certain messy but enriching emotional realities.

Once the whole thing is out there, I'll post some thoughts on individual tracks.

I'm sure Ian will pop in soon to offer his take on the album.

Hope you like.

"But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable."

"Our lives are woven together in a fabric."