Live4ever’s Best Albums Of 2021…So Far: For Those I Love – For Those I Love


For Those I Love




Live4ever is currently shining the spotlight on some of our favourite albums and tracks of 2021 so far – today’s highlight comes from For Those I Love.

It’s only occasionally when an album like the For Those I Love debut comes along.

Written in response to tragedy, it’s a document of all the searing emotions such an event brings; grief, pain, anger, reminiscence and, hopefully with time, acceptance and healing.

But more than that, For Those I Love is a rarity because it immediately feels like it had to exist. Like the artist’s world depended on it.

It draws us into that world, wondering how we ever managed to cope all this time without it and, as Leave Me Not Love drifts to a close, leaves us wishing it would keep us there for much longer.

They say when a loved one passes one of the greatest fears is forgetting what that person sounded like. Here, Paul Curran’s is a voice preserved forever.

“Peppered with snatches of Curran’s voice salvaged from old WhatsApp messages, his almost constant presence as a muse – along with the long cultural shadow of Coolock itself – leads inevitably to the thought that this is as much the product of an active collaboration as any more orthodox project,” our review reads.

“Maudlin? Never. Opener I Have A Love may begin with a solemn piano, but the words are about the inexplicable chemistry of friendship and the emotion of being connected at a fundamental level whilst the gently uplifting backbeat mimics a rave if St. Peter was on the decks.”

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