British blues singer-songwriter BEN POOLE performs with an invigorating natural ability and amazing dexterity.
We’ve previously described the artist as a “modest genius who has become a young luminary in the field…”
The much-admired musician released his newest single, ‘Time Has No Mercy’ on Friday 28th August via Gypsy Soul Records, accompanied by an official lyric music video (shared below.)
The single is taken from his forthcoming album Post-Midnight Behaviour, due for release on 25th September. This will be Poole’s first studio album of brand-new material in eight years.
“‘Time Has No Mercy’ was one of the last songs that we wrote for the album,” says Poole. “The idea was to react against what we had written to this point. We had been working up a few emotionally darker, heavier tracks and the idea with ‘Time Has No Mercy’ was to write something lighter and more upbeat.”
“It’s an empowering song, rather than a brooding or melancholic thing which we had just drowned ourselves in for the previous few weeks’ worth of writing. The whole idea came from the riff which is at the very end of the song now. It’s funny how that happens sometimes. The spark for the whole song came from a tiny outro section.”
The song has a fidgety feel, driven by fretful bass notes and a restless attitude. Poole’s song-voice is pleasingly honeyed. The sonic landscape grows hazier in outline as the track progresses, layered with fuzzier guitars about a third of the way in. The winding, twisting guitar solo adds contortion and shape to the structure, turning the single into an imaginative ode to not giving in to the tests of time and maintaining a positive focus on one’s personal empowerment.
Words: © Neil Mach
Main Photo: © Mike Inns
BEN POOLE Time Has No Mercy : https://lnk.fuga.com/benpoole_timehasnomercy
Pre-order the album here: https://gypsy-soul-records.myshopify.com/collections/ben-poole
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