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Perhaps they are different live - perhaps there’s something about an audience that lights a fire under them. Because otherwise I can't understand the fuss about The Conway Story. They are not 'visceral' or 'vicious' as their press would like us to believe, nor is there any hint of the Smashing Pumpkins in this smooth and melodic single, Landing Light. In fact they sound dangerously like Coldplay.
Taken from their soon to be released album Adam & Eve, Landing Light is apparently related to the history of Anne Conway, from whom the band also takes its name. Conway was an outsider philosopher who tried to reconcile her own personal suffering with the idea of a compassionate God, and got further than anyone of sense ought. Whatever distant philosophical stirrings lie behind it, the thrust of Landing Light;s lyric is basically "I love you so much I'll guide you safely home."
The listener is left in no doubt that the rather plaintive singer will be their landing light as the song swells to a big guitar finish. As I said, very Coldplay, very tedious.
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