Album News, plus Thomas White Tour

So... after all the shenanigans I'm proud to announce that my debut album has now finally been mixed and mastered, and is sounding pretty darn lovely if I do say so myself...
It's currently titled 'Reveal or Steal' and I'll be spending the next few weeks working out how I'm going to release the thing officially, but you can have a gander over on myspace in the meantime...

In other news, the next month or so will see me joining the brilliant Thomas White on tour across the UK (and for one gig in Paris!). His amazing new album 'The Maximalist' has just come out on Cooking Vinyl and he's asked me along to play bass in his little band of merry folks (current working names for the band: 'Sponge', 'Travelodge', 'Salty Cheesecake' or 'Discounts for Vicars').

If you're near a venue, get along to a show - you wont regret it - and while you're at it buy his album it's amazing...

Music Week: "...a blaze of kaleidoscopic, yet finely nuanced, psych-pop, from Syd Barrett-style haunted whimsy to 70's soft rock and heavier riffing. Live he's terrific too, with a dynamic band behind him."

Q: "A decade into his musical career and still just 25, Thomas White is never one to sit still, hence his second solo album, squeezed in between session work and more personal projects. A good thing, too. Introducing The Band - AC/DC meets prog overture - and Synapse Galaxy's aping of Spinal Tap's Stonehenge offer glimpses of humour. The sentimental looks at his Brighton hometown on Jerusalem Thorn, a psychedelic nod to Guided By Voices, and ...Lost allow a different kind of light to shine through." ***

VisualMusic: (translated from French) "... a marvel of reverie very much like Kid A-period Radiohead, though more welcoming, less cold, less distant. "The Maximalist" surprises because it is voracious, hard, difficult - it never goes where you expect, or wherever you hoped it would, yet this causes a fascination of its melodic moments and his willingness to offer something more and go further. Another reason, if need be, to always keep an eye on what Thomas White is currently simmering. Without doubt, one of the best of his generation.****

Uncut: "The Maximalist opens the dam of ostensibly conflicting styles and releases the deluge in all its' crazily self-confident, so-wrong-it's-right glory. White fuses elements of The Who, Chicago, My Bloody Valentine, Queens Of The Stone Age, Badalamenti and Badfinger, which is not just a feat of cut-and-paste engineering, but also proof of his verve, vivid imagination and fervent love of music." ****

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