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Hot on the heels of the last album, Call Back, No Shore is the third album from singer songwriter Alex Cornish.
Opening with the beautiful Storm To Pass, which we suspect is where the album title comes from (There’s no shelter/ There’s no sound / There’s no shore) we’re introduced to that well known Cornish sound. This follows beautifully into Rely. What is quite possibly the loudest song on the album, Open Your Eyes sounds as if there is a slight mixing error as vocals do sounds a little louder than the instruments, but this may have been the desired effect.
Skyline Of Paris is a beautiful piano driven track before leading onto what seems at first, a violin driven track, Keep Focus but bursting into full colour. Time And Space is a nice slow guitar driven track, which ends on a little ‘hidden’ instrumental of the song on the end. Always A Way is a great little number (and was offered free on his official site…might still be…)
Next we have the another slow, guitar driven song Breathe Slow, which has recently made an appearance at the end of episode 8 of season 2 of The Big C in the US (we think we can see the context that it’s being used in). A change of pace with No Reason before slowing it down for the violin driven This Is The point, that brings the album to the perfect end.
No Shore is another heartfelt album and sounds the same on record as it does live. It would probably surprise people that the album was recorded in 3 weeks and in a little flat (and by recorded, we do mean absolutely everything, right down to the strings section!) but you can’t tell that from the album. It’s another great release from Alex Cornish. A very easy listening and heartfelt album that should be given a listen.
Rating: 5/5