It’s very slightly jazzish, has plenty of texture, and some electric guitar which though gentle made me think of Lenny Kaye and what he can unleash. They describe their stuff a little roughly as ‘between acoustic balladry and a highly charged racket.’ Best of the ballad-paced numbers in a number of ways is ‘Life For Two’. Could it also spring from Wilful Missing’s caution towards outlining themselves above the horizon in the shape of a First Album, when their distinctive and deeply unified sound is still developing? OK then, that’s what it is, and for the perfectly practical reason that it contains the fruits of two widely separated recording sessions. We’re offered a collection of eleven songs which, say the band, make not an album but a double EP. As Kingsley Amis said about some other very pleasing things, ‘I’m clear on why I like them, thanks but why do I like them so much?’ The answer has to be a subtle intensity in Wilful Missing’s often fragile-sounding songs written and sung by Sam Kipling, with a range of well-controlled instruments in the hands of guitarist Sam Lawrence and bass player Albert Freeman. There’s some really good talent here: in the playing, the singing and the songwriting. The review was written by John Hepworth in 2006. This is a review of "Untitled" recorded by Wilful Missing.
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