Single Review – Signs of Life by The Proctors (2024) (Sunday Records)
Since the early 2010’s resurrection of 1990s jangle-pop legends The Proctors, which was heralded by the glorious Everlasting Light album (Shelflife Records 2013) and then latterly the Summer Lane album of 2020 (Jigsaw Records), the West Midlands-based ‘kings of the arpeggio’ have drip-fed their fans with just enough compilations and singles to keep us lusting for something more substantial.
Finally, after a four-year wait, this Signs of Life single, which was originally released in 2013 as the non-album b-side to the Cellophane 7″ (Shelflife and Kingfisher Bluez) is the carefully selected first single from the Snowdrops and Hot Air Balloons album that will be released on Sunday Records later in the year.
In typical The Proctors fashion, the track is everything we have always celebrated about them, with dulcet, cinematic volumes of dreamy, male/female vocal harmonies being surrounded by jangled riffs that flutter with Brighter, Trembling Blue Stars, and The Field Mice-style arpeggios that fill a single that never relents in engulfing the listener with beauty.
I am not sure that a release date has been cited for the album as yet, so just ensure that every The Proctors and Sunday Records “follow buttons” you can find are clicked (and double-clicked) so you do not miss out on a physical copy… you can guarantee they will not be around for long!
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