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Steve Mason

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Meet the ‘new’ Steve Mason. Newly relocated to Brighton, newly energised about working with people, now in possession of a new studio album.



‘Meet The Humans’ is an apt title for the third record under the Steve Mason name. Shot through with the renewal of that move and finding its author feeling ‘pretty victorious’, it fires out of the traps with the refrain ‘cause you can make it / don’t think this pain is forever’ and doesn’t look back, swinging musically across dance, pop, folk, dub, and deep house influences and remaining as lyrically adept and open as anything Steve has done back to the ‘Three Eps’. Whilst no ‘happy clappy’ collection, lyrically unafraid to pin its beliefs to its sleeve, ‘Meet The Humans’ is the sound of a songwriter in a purple patch, not just in artistic terms but of the whole 360, full life variety:



‘I’m a great believer in saying that you can sit around and say everything’s shit but if you do that they’ve won. They want you to sit in your house and watch X Factor or Strictly, it’s pure soma but it’s about popping into your neighbour and having a chat and setting the world to rights. It’s about little victories, small conversations that will really change the world.’



It may be no conscious thing, Steve is happy to accept that he often doesn’t know where the songs come from, yet ‘Meet The Humans’ crashes into our current divided world with its flag flying high for communication and community, there is very much such a thing as society within its eleven tracks. As a follow up to his ‘double political concept album’ ‘Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time’ this is an album that is, in true Steve Mason fashion, a reaction against that concept and a move towards a more simple ethic; ‘a song where each album is a separate entity, where there is no great narrative running through it.’ Nonetheless, to the attentive listener, if not its creator, the record repeatedly returns to core themes, the possibility of others to redeem the self, the opportunity of change for the better in the individual, the joy of life and the world we inhabit, a joy discovered by Steve with his move from ‘a cottage in the woods in Scotland’ to the creative buzz of Brighton



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