Album Review: Tom Grennan Is “Lighting Matches” For Life

In life, we light matches: not just literally. We spark relationships, fights, breakthroughs, and breakdowns just to see a moment burn. Whether the intentions are for better or worse, they are always with motive to feel. Tom Grennan’s Lighting Matching is a rock n’ roll bonfire, where Grennan lights up his life to see how it rises.

From “Royal Highness” to “Secret Lover,” Grennan’s album feels like a quick, mall-run through all the bad decisions you made to learn to make better ones. Yes, you make mistakes when you are learning, and life is one GIANT LESSON PLAN! “Sober”, “Barbed Wire”, “Praying” and “Sweet Hallelujah” are all testaments to how your errors are your teachers, which is why regret, thought natural, are stupid. After all, no child learns how to walk without tumbling and crawling first, of which Grennan’s voice could can make you feel as such.
Tom Grennan – Barbed Wire

There is something grimed about Grennan’s vocality that makes it addictive. He is like stained glass; coloring and fracturing what is meant to be clear. Yet, you do not sing to “Lighting Matches” or “Something In The Water” or even say “I Might,” if you are truly clear. Thus, Grennan’s capacity to scrape his voice and skip his verses like a man on the run to nowhere is electrifying. He transforms his album into the record you turn on when you want someone who understands what it is to move in the same place. Maybe that is why we throw a wrench at bonds or light up our “stability,” nobody considers “moving in place” as movement, at all.
Tom Grennan – Found What I’ve Been Looking For

Lighting Matches comes out on July 6, and this is NOT a short album At 16 tracks, the British star gives underground rock vibes with a splash of Tennessee folk like, The Beatles performing at a country bar in Liverpool. Yet, that sounds like a dream! For More Information Tom Grennan And To Buy Lighting Matches on July 6 Click Here.