Borrowed Time

There didn't seem to much fanfare around the release of the latest Morning Again record last year. 'Borrowed Time' came out in May 2023 as a split release between Revelation Records and Dead Serious Records (a German label), and if you weren't paying attention, you probably wouldn't know. I'm not sure why, but Revelation continue to release Morning Again records but not put much effort into promoting them. I have always liked this band, so given it was on Rev it was a must for me.

There were only 500 copies of this one pressed by Rev (or at least, available from Rev) and both colours are still available. The 'translucent yellow with black smoke' is the more common colour, but looks the nicest, whereas the black & red mix' is out of only 200 copies. And that is all there is... well, from Rev. There are three other splattery colours available from the European label, but I'm going to conveniently ignore those.

As I mentioned, I have always been a fan of this band, and this record is really, really good. It's as if they have decided to not even bother trying to sound like they used to sound, but are just going to do whatever they want. It kinda sounds odd to say it, but this doesn't really sound like previous Morning Again records, and sounds more (ahem) 'progressive'. Pretty cool that a band that has been going this long are still experimenting and changing their sound, and I'm slightly bummed that there are only 5 songs on here. I'm hoping that they record and release more material that sounds like this, although I'm unsure as to whether the title implies that they are thinking about hanging up their boots.