Music like that made by P.G. Naylor is never going to go out of fashion. Why? Because solid, melodic, infectious, unfussy, guitar pop (albeit with a rock swagger) never goes out of fashion. As Better Left Unsaid motors through to its logical conclusion, you yearn for a time when songs, and the artists behind them, just got on with the job – no fuss, no courting controversy, no mass ranks of co-writers and collaborators, no guest rappers, no dance routines.

Sensible is no less timeless, just in a more understated way. Slightly Beatle-esque, balladic and delicate but still oozing honesty and integrity. Again, a far cry from the usual pop fare.

Fads and fashions may come and go but I suspect however strongly the winds of change my low, P.G. Naylor will always be found in the relative calm of the eye of the storm doing what he does best.

‘Sensible’
https://open.spotify.com/track/6X2tamz5mTF9MGiYPZKnSG

‘Better Left Unsaid’
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fTV9NDWPKxdlXujEBKRLT

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