Released: 2021
Extract from the review of For Those I Love, published in 2021.
“Most people can probably name at least one great song about love, because most people can usually remember, no matter how fleeting or consigned to history, the thrill of first attraction. The problem with romantic love is that more often than not it dissolves or fades, breaking either in two or towards something more platonic.
David Balfe knows real love can scar far worse than any fight or accident, because his platonic love was his friend, fellow Dublin artist Paul Curran, with whom he grew up in the working class suburb of Coolock. When Curran took his own life in 2018 the pall of grief spread out far beyond the reaches of the city, in turn drowning Balfe with a tsunami of memories, unanswered questions and unfulfilled plans. What came from this pile on of emotions was this, a record about his story and Curran’s, one expressed on the opening track in the present tense, because something so profound should only end when everyone wants it to.”
The Voice Of Unreason 