Tom Hickox - Monsters in the Deep (2017)

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Tom Hickox - Monsters in the Deep (2017)

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‘The most powerful & original lyrical songwriter this country has produced in years’ – Daily Telegraph.
‘Searingly poignant’ – Sunday Times.
Following the release of his 2014 debut album ‘War, Peace and Diplomacy’, on March 31st 2017 Tom will release his new album ‘Monsters In The Deep’.

‘Monsters in the Deep’ is a major artistic leap for Tom Hickox. Both lyrically and musically, the songs see Hickox stretching out and fully availing himself of the possibilities presented by each song. Hickox’s fascination with the infinitely complex machinery of the city and our attempts to come to an accommodation with it is also abundant throughout the album – The Fanfare is an apocalyptic two-and-a-half minute exploration of that and of global tensions. Each song on the album is multi-layered. The story is what’s on the surface, but the bit that connects is what underpins the story. Korean Girl In A Waiting Room is really a song about homesickness, written after Hickox witnessed the girl passed out and imagined her waking up surrounded by doctors a million miles from home, and she doesn’t speak English.

Herein lies the paradox that awaits you at every turn on this extraordinary album. For someone who clearly enjoys observing the never ending human drama unfolding around him, Tom Hickox manages to reveal an awful lot of himself in that process. ‘We’re all trying to get through the day’, explains the more genial of artists, ‘and sometimes the odds seem insurmountable. But I’m a great believer in the human spirit, That’s why I love cities. That’s why I love *this* city. The bright lights entice you in and tell you that you can start over, not just once, but every day. That’s priceless for someone like me. It means that every day, I want to write. How could you not?’