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Johnny Sharp

“Hats off to the duo for bravely naming one of their most affecting ballads after a commuter town in Surrey…delivered with a conviction that’s hard to deny”: Wilson & Wakeman’s Can We Leave The Light On Longer?

WIlson and Wakeman - Can We Leave The Light On Longer?.

Anyone without prior knowledge of former Threshold/current Arena singer Damian Wilson and his former Headspace colleague and prog man-about-town Adam Wakeman, when listening to Can We Leave The Light On Longer?, would be unlikely to detect any influence from beyond the mainstream singer-songwriter realm.

But as with most proggers, lofty concepts, long-form musical suites and juddery time signatures are far from the only strings to their bow. On this third album as a duo, Wilson and Wakeman offer 10 relatively simple, short piano-based compositions that are woven with a common thread of “how we are connected as human beings.”

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