…and there it is! One of my most looked forward to albums of this year has been released yesterday. Hail The Sun’s 7th album ‘cut. turn. fade. back.’ features some of my favourite songs of this year in opener ‘The Drooling Class’ and closer ‘War Crimes’ and with 9 songs I hadn’t listened to before (I purposely didn’t listen to any other previously released singles to get the ultimate ‘brand new’ experience at the day of release), I was up for one of the biggest treats of this year when I first played the album in its fullest yesterday. Honestly, with the end of 2025 approaching, I wasn’t quite sure if anyone could beat my #1 album of this year so far (which I won’t spoil just yet!) but with ‘cut. turn. fade. back’ now being released, chances are quite likely the top of my list will get quite the overhaul. This album is an absolute stunner and I’m sure I’ll be playing it on repeat for the rest of the year. My first impressions (I’ve played it a handful of times already) leave me with ‘Consumed With You’ as one of the many songs I foresee staying with me for a long time. Perhaps this song might even turn out to be my new ‘Made Your Mark‘, known to be my all-time favourite Hail The Sun song and one that easily moves me to tears.