Description
Label Review.
2020 covers album. Also available on vinyl.
Our Overview.
Pete Astor, the indie legend responsible for bands The Loft, The Weather Prophets, The Wisdom of Harry and Ellis Island Sound. returns with an album of other people’s songs. It was recorded with producer Ian Button and features Dave Tattersall (Wave Pictures) playing guitar and Andy Lewis (Spearmint, Blow Up) on bass and synth, with Pam Berry (Black Tambourine, Withered Hand), Sean Read (Edwyn Collins, Pretenders, and a mass of brilliant others) and Nina Walsh (Woodleigh Research Facility, Fireflies) joining on vocals.
From the pure pop ache of Gen X’s “Dancing with Myself” to the stoic heartbreak of Cat Power’s “Manhattan”, via the shadowy rider in Elvis Presley’s “Black Star”, to the teenage ’50s gangster of Richard Thompson’s “Vincent Black Lightning”, ‘You Made Me’ marks some of the way stations of a life in music, songs to make sense of time passing and what that passing time can mean. Pete Astor shares his thoughts on ‘You Made Me’: “Like everybody, my life has been sound-tracked by the songs I listen to and sing along with. And a bit like a collection of photographs, I’ve lost some while some never even got taken. Nonetheless, some really good ones did get through.”
Tracklisting: Dancing with Myself (Gen X) / Black Star (Elvis Presley) / Chained to an Idiot (Pete Astor) / Manhattan (Cat Power) / Nitcomb (Joe Strummer) / Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson) / Solid Air (John Martyn) / Can’t Hardly Wait (Replacements) / Courage (Villagers) / Suffering Jukebox (Silver Jews) / One Man Guy (Loudon Wainwright III).