This time, the compass into the light

Viewed objectively, to entertain music, who does not like to listen, it can. Music can even today still lead to wealth, but it can also be an outlet for the state of mind of the artist.
I think Tom Shear is not one of the people who make music for money, but he is, do you take the trouble to pay attention to texts, a lot of his personality award. In Compass, more than ever.

Sure, it lacks the previous hardness. Shear is the new album skillfully and deliberately different standards to strictly along the lines of "I'm not in the world to be what others want from me that I am ...", and he has the songs in their playful ease their way into the light.
Man has currently a good mood, he's fine, and you can hear that!

An end to the darkness! No, not with melancholy and longing, with the only black shades.
I am convinced Shear is a man pure of heart who leaves a bad word about the lips only in an emergency. If someone like him, criticized himself and gives advice, I listen to like.
SPARK is for me the best A23 song ever. Closely followed by LET ME BE YOUR ARMOUR, yes. Ingenious synths in the higher frequency range. Anyone who thinks this, the album had no catchy tunes, probably has ear worms.
At Compass a hit after the other. Dark hard sounds rather less, but low tones has also fed's right - when the bass at COLLAPSE slips below the 50 Hz limit, pushes you in the car's rear window out!
In HOW CAN YOU SLEEP You do not try to use it again, you do not get out - the piece comes brachial bassy for his ballad-like pace of the boxes.
Angels & Demons is a pop hit, the you'll never hear on the radio, because Shear charts disabled cross tones can fietschen to cut up the harmony initially built up again. This is done skillfully and to separate the sense a sleek, lightweight piece of music from pop music kitsch. A hymn!
In Impermanence I can not keep quiet the legs. A Floorfiller, which you can hear in loop.

Rest there after THE YEAR cruelest what I then know for me to have as indeed for LULLABY from DEFIANCE album, understood what Shear wishes to communicate.

This is no pigeonholing or pathos; there are people who would buy a Depeche Mode album, When the boys do folk music record - at COMPASS A23 of every penny is well spent and just the variety makes it really interesting!