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It’s been a little quiet from me on the blog front lately, which is something I’ll be trying to rectify over the next couple of weeks. The reason for this is fourfold:

1. Work (the day job) has been incredibly busy recently so my usual “update the blog during my lunch break” hasn’t been an option because I haven’t really had one.

2. Trying to do a blog post from home is really tough, thanks to having two active kids! As I write this, it’s 9am on a Sunday morning, I’ve been awake for almost four hours already, and despite having the laptop open have been full of changing nappies, doing breakfasts, and this second I have a one year old trying to climb onto my laptop and a four year old trying to pull a cushion out from under my back. None of these things are very hardcore, I’ll admit.

3. What spare time I do have has been taken up by trying to get some very overdue tracks finished or by learning a new environment, having installed Bitwig and Serum recently - a blog post on these soon!

4. I haven’t been feeling much new music in the last few weeks. Don’t get me wrong, there’s been a couple of tracks, but nothing has stood out to me.

Luckily on the last note, Luna C has broken that pattern with the first of four new tracks upcoming on his new EP. He thinks this is the best work he’s done since (and even including) My Angel, and I’m inclined to agree with him if Take Me Home is anything to go by.

On his recent blog post Chris is incredibly and unusually frank about the background behind the upcoming EP, his Reeve alias and the last few years of his life. I will admit I was somewhat aware at the time that his marriage was struggling, and he sent me a preview copy of his Reeve album when he’d finished it, and I will admit I was somewhat less than enthused at the time and told him so. This is because I really don’t like folk music or lyrically melancholy music (with very few exceptions), and I will be honest and say I didn’t sit and really think about what Chris was saying and take it in. For this I apologise, as looking back on this I should have been more supportive at the time. I can only say that I wasn’t in the best frame of mind to be a good support at the time either - my dad had died suddenly and unexpectedly, leaving me coming to terms with the acceptance and responsibility as now the oldest surviving member of my family line, trying to sort out a repatriation and an estate on the other side of the country while holding down my job and supporting my wife and a young baby. I don’t think I’m very good at supporting anyone (even myself) emotionally - I never seem to know quite what to say, so I tend to keep things to myself. I hope my actions at the time didn’t cause Chris any further disparagement - if so, then I am sorry.

Anyway, enough of that, just that I advise you to read Chris’ blog post.

Onto the track - "Take Me Home” is great and I’m not saying it because of the above. It’s not just the lyrics (which work well imo), but the vibe of the track itself. It’s something I can really see people dancing to - and singing along - on the dancefloor (which is unusual considering the track background perhaps and that it doesn’t conform to hardcore’s usual rules - but isn’t that often the way with Chris?). I’m looking forward to the other tracks that will be announced over the next three weeks.

The Risk EP is available from Kniteforce on May 18th.

Watch the video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/L2gVE1bjpP4 (which is ingeniously produced btw!)