Release: 2021
An old quote says that “A performance shows people a pleasant lie”. For Rebecca Lucy Taylor that became more and more true as along with Charles Watson she felt the band they shared Slow Club were locked in ever tighter commercial and creative circles. Exhausted emotionally and physically, the end of it was a profound relief for both of them.
If the worst form of deceit is of yourself, then the equal and opposite can be redemptory and in Taylor’s case, the only viable option when faced with being in an industry whose entire function is to lie. As Self Esteem the boundaries between lyricism, public therapy, confession and outing the inner monologue dissolved, the results poignant, cathartic and in places laugh wickedly funny.
I Do This All The Time was fundamentally a promise of liberation. Remarkably soulful, sweet and considered, Taylor used it’s almost careful meter to speak heart to heart with herself, the form messages written then hastily deleted and unsent like ghosts. If performance was defined as untruth, here was the opposite, a note to self that explained the nothingness of everything and the power of our gift for willingly deceiving ourselves.
The Voice Of Unreason 