Once more
The Tonighters return to the murky world of the music business and
thumb their noses and bare their backsides at the big labels and
their dodgy deals.
Well when
I say their noses and their backsides I really just mean his nose and
his backside as The Tonighters are really the solo efforts of William
'Canny Lad' Gilbert.
Yet
again, virtually all on his lonesome, he has released another ep of
what is very nearly pop perfection.
He plays
the lot, writes it all, produces it all, designs the artwork and
more,
It's very
nearly a one man cottage industry.
The only
thing stopping it being a complete solo effort in the truest sense is
the inclusion of some additional vocals from Sophie Evans who
provides a very lovely counter balance to Williams own approach to
the songs.
It all so
very lovely.
I should
explain that now.
In an age
when claiming that a persons musical efforts are lovely it can come
across as a bit weak.
Lovely
seems to translate to nothing to write home about.
It's cast
about rather dismissively, but in this case my claiming that
'Photograph' is lovely flies in the face of the perceived
understanding of it, because when I use the term I am meaning that it
is so beautifully written and performed that it is like a lovely
salve that works as an antidote to the stresses of everyday life.
Slip it
on a drift along with the summery mod tinged sound of the Tonighters
and you will also feel the need to breathe the word lovely out and
genuinely mean it.
At one
point of his career the Modfather would have given his left nut to
have written these songs.
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