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Album Review: Sam Shinazzi Forever And For Now

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"Sometimes the most complicated thing is keeping it simple."

Sometimes the most complicated thing is keeping it simple. Shinazzi has the knack of it.

It’s little remembrances as conversations, the emotions distilled to a phrase, a feeling. It’s knowing something’s not quite right and recognising the doubts. Knowing in your Bones “the fear of being alone” is all that’s holding a faltering relationship together. But there’s joy in small gestures too: The Day We Met’s overseas call from a friend at a Springsteen concert, or seeing someone on an early train by chance – a sign that Everything’s Alright. And it just might be.