The newest, and last, album by The Alarm. How did I not read their singer Mike Peters died of lymphoma a year ago?!?

[AZJonnie]

Man, I loved the Alarm in their heyday, even saw them a couple times around 1990. I just learned the news of his passing from a review of the new record that came out a short time ago. And it's a great review!

https://glidemagazine.com/325969/the-alarm-deliver-one-final-act-of-rock-and-roll-resistance-on-transformation-album-review/

You can hear both uncertainty and his determination to survive woven throughout the record. The optimism is obvious from the opening track, “New Life,” where he sings “100 ml of pure life blood, designed for new life… I’m crossing the line between the dead and the alive,” over a rolling bass line and drums. The early single “Live Today” is a driving, stadium-worthy anthem that would have slotted nicely onto any of their classic mid-’80s albums, with Peters defiantly singing, “I don’t want to live forever; I want to live right now.” You can hear the emotion in his vocals as they crack in the chorus. Similarly, “One In a Million” is another song that seems like it was left over from the Declaration or Strength session.

Anyways, this song from the album (the only one I've heard thus far, off to check out the remainder of the record!) is all the more poignant when you realize he literally was dying at the time.

Mike Peters