The first half, World One: Music, lets the melodies walk around without language leaning on them, and that choice gives the album a kind of open air. These instrumentals do not beg for attention; they gather it by moving with patience and poise, letting space do some of the talking.
Then World Two: Songs steps in and the atmosphere changes, not with a thud, but with the pressure of weather rolling over. Ure turns his gaze outward and finds a planet full of broken speech, moral collapse, public fraud, private weariness, and the daily insult of watching power perform stupidity with a straight face.
This concept is said to be partly inspired by the time Midge spent during lockdown listening to instrumental music, and some of the work he heard whilst presenting THE SPACE on Scala Radio. He began writing what became a selection of instrumental pieces — "music shaped by reflection, uncertainty, and a strange kind of quiet".
The eight vocal songs which form the second part of the album, are described as "incredibly sparse and meditative", with some songs dealing with the frailty of the human condition, underlying many songs is a reflection of Midge's concerns for the discord infecting world today. You can preview lead tracks ‘Just Words’, above.
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