It’s been, somewhat remarkably, over five years now since Lonely The Brave and founding vocalist David Jakes shook hands on a decade-long relationship and went their separate ways. For any band, the departure of a longstanding vocalist is one of the most difficult to overcome; for Lonely The Brave, much of whose reputation and breakout success around 2014 album The Day’s War and 2016 follow-up Things Will Matter had been built on David’ earnest, skyscraper vocals and introspective, poetic lyricism, that job would be an assignment the envy of no one. In a bid to fill that the void arrived Jack ‘Grumble Bee’ Bennett and, one global pandemic later, 2021’s The Hope List album, a work which proved there was a rich future yet for the one-time hottest new name in Br...