it was exactly this time time last year that i heard paul duncan for the first time (no, not that dude from blue peter).

GvsB had posted a track, oil in the fields, from his 2nd release be careful what you call home which i audiocrushed on so hard i had to go buy the album.

but home’s a funny concept.

and i’d have to agree with paul duncan here.

you want to be careful what you call home because oftentimes, its not where you thought it was, or even where you remember leaving it.

and sometimes its static and sometimes its fluid but its always somewhere around, so you just have to look for it.

i once sat on a canalside bench on a chilly february tuesday and listened to this album twice over when i was really without a place to live and knew then that theres something of home that we all carry in us.

hopefully its our dreams, though it can be our nightmares.

but when those get exorcised - even while they are being driven out, the idea of creating a new place to call home can be more terrifying than those nightmares themselves.

so as forwarned is forearmed, learning a new way home can be a long journey but, when it turns out to be where the heart is headed too, it’s worth it…

paul duncan - in a way