Peter Broderick How They Are (CD, Bella Union, 2010) ****
Genre: Folk rock
Places I remember: Fopp (Covent Garden)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: And It's Alright (Home)
Gear costume: With The Notes In My Ears (Home)
Active compensatory factors: Home is a real solo effort - Peter plays everything and is the voice in these warm, encompassing songs.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: And It's Alright (Home)
Gear costume: With The Notes In My Ears (Home)
Same deal for How They Are but this one - recorded just after Home, contains more piano driven songs, where Home was most definitely guitar centric throughout.
He is blessed with a great voice - warm, honey toned and seemingly effortless.
As a vast generalisation, but as evidenced by the covers and featured instruments - Home is a sunny, happy, cosy record as he searches, hopefully, for an idyllic home, while How They Are is colder, wintery, sadder, haunting even and transitory as he keeps on searching for a sense of belonging.
Yin and Yang.
Where do they all belong? Great albums for Sunday mornings, depending on your mood.
