Doing This for Love is an album blessed with one of those artfully considered covers that visually informs the precise experience from which these songs have risen. What at first glance looks like an indistinct melange of colours reveals, after a lingering glare, to be the sight of over-congested traffic, headlights on before sunrise, rain hitting the windscreen as the working masses advance on another long, exhausting day.
As Kris Drever himself has stated ahead of the record’s release. “These ten songs are mediations on the unglamourous 4am alarm clocks, ungrateful shifts, the quiet sacrifices made for love.” That alone should illustrate the extent to which Kris has evolved artistically over the years, no more limited to the inherited, traditional…

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