"Peaceful Warrior" was originally released as a single in April 2021.
"What first attracted me to James' work is that it is unusual in form: this tends to catch my attention in the first place & I'm not at all sure that I'd wish to pass onto you anything which was bland, predictable or stereotyped. "Peaceful Warrior" is certainly an idiosyncratic piece, though that of course in no way diminishes its sincerity: quite the opposite as I'd feel generally that a song constructed purely along predictable lines might be sacrificing quality of emotion just to fit preconceived ideas of what a tribute to a fallen warrior & relative "should" sound like. It's a narrow line between the necessary pathos & empathy and what might easily tip over into sentimentality, but James manages it to navigate it quite cleverly: not least by keeping us on our toes, so we keep listening." ("Hot Music Live")
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