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If Volume 1 of this planned trilogy of albums did the groundwork for an exploration of Chris White's career in music, this middle panel of his musical Triptych features his work from the dissolution of The Zombies, the band that he will always be most closely associated with, in 1976 to the present day. Again,... Continue Reading →
There is something unashamedly 80’s about New Key’s latest album, but that is okay, everyone is doing it, though I suspect that Onno, the man behind the musical mask, is doing what comes naturally to him rather than heading down this path as a way of surfing the current zeitgeist. Somewhere between the pop and... Continue Reading →
Sometimes it’s a hook, sometimes it’s a groove, sometimes it is even the album cover itself, this time it was a lyric. “Your empathy is melting, like conversational snow,” that first line alone was the real “you had me at hello” moment for me as the opening salvo of Do, Baby emanated across the room.... Continue Reading →
Inspiration, especially musical inspiration, comes from many different sources ranging from the everyday to the extraordinary. But in there can’t be many things more inspiring, more likely to set the creative juices flowing, than a pilgrimage along ancient trails following in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims. I mean, it's a step up from buying a... Continue Reading →
Artist bio’s are notoriously optimistic, perhaps describing the sound and style that a band are aiming for rather than the one that they are currently pedalling. You often see names used as references which pique your interest, iconic bands which have played a significant part in your own musical education and when you do you... Continue Reading →
When the Zombies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside Rod Argent, Hugh Grundy and Colin Blunstone, stood Chris White, and rightly so. As co-producer and co-writer of Odyssey and Oracle his place in the annals of music history are of course assured, further work with Argent and his songwriting finding... Continue Reading →
The word on the street is that Jonny Polonsky writes “interstellar anthems for a new generation of mindfreaks,” and to be honest, whether that is true or not, anyone who merely evokes that sort of language has got to be work a listen. And even if you dismiss that as mere hyperbole, the fact that... Continue Reading →
Music is at it’s best when it is crossing borders, when it is free to sample the sonic delights of any number of genres and then forge those sounds and ideas into something new, appealing and unique. Genres have a way of focusing the musical mind too narrowly, of suggesting that their are rules and... Continue Reading →
If Deep C Divers has always made music with a certain clever understated quality to it, here they wind things back even further and prove that less is certainly more, familiarity is a fine quality for music to have and that music doesn’t have to be big when it can instead be clever. And this... Continue Reading →