You should always give Ron Sexsmith time, even more so when he pointedly calls a record Time Being.
Hands Of Time begins the quiet Canadian's eighth album with the resignation that he cannot control the ticking clock; Snow Angel gently craves making a lasting impression deeper than the snow and All In Good Time comforts itself in the knowledge that "all in good time the bad times will be gone".
Sexsmith rejects foolish dreams and childish things on Never Give Up, and yet here's the rub, he vows he will "never give up on you".
He writes of the romantic follies, ageing fears and lasting glow of adult love with a warm if worn heart and the most subtle of fireside melodies reminiscent of early-Seventies McCartney.
Better still, Sexsmith has restored Mitchell Froom to the producer's role, and the ever sensitive Froom lets each song walk the tightrope between the transitory and the timeless, the morning air and the dust of dusk.
Don't waste time, buy now.
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