Air of the Gods

'Air Of The Gods' has an ebb and flow that makes it a pleasure to listen to from start to finish. Here are 12 songs of real purpose. ‘To Give Again’ explodes onto the scene with great strength counteracting the questioning lyrics of an everyday sinner. Pete uses a Fender Telecaster electric guitar to chop and bite at the heels of Andy Smith’s furious and mesmerizing drum work. All this is accompanied by Pete’s walking bass line and assured vocals. A great start. The sound then drops away to just acoustic and voice for ‘Can You Hear Me?’ Stark emptiness combines here with a haunting beauty. The acoustic guitar is picked delicately, the vocals even more delicately approaching the ‘should I stay or should I go?’ aspect of a difficult relationship. Pete co-wrote this song with Andrea Wetton and the final product is hard-hitting but also incredibly beautiful.

‘Paperwork’ opens with a waspish didgeridoo gradually shifting down a pitch from an E to a D to accompany the acoustic guitar, shakers and tambourine. In come the vocals defiantly protesting against bureaucracy, paperwork, and basically anything else worth whinging about. But this whinging is not laboured or contrived, but appears from the heart as do all of the songs and instrumentals on this album. Pete’s imagination and creativity reach new heights in ‘Coastal City Night’ and ‘Another Rabbit’ and do not falter for the grand finale in ‘Air Of The Gods’- the album’s title track – and ‘The Village Rose’. This final song is helped along its way by Polly-Anna Ashford’s tasteful pastoral flute playing.

Many thanks again go to Sam Parkinson for helping to produce such a great sound on the album and the musicians that have appeared on the album, Andy Smith on drums/percussion and Polly-Anna Ashford on flute.

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