Peter Lacey - Anderida

2003 release has arrived and Brian Wilson will want read on carefully. The title of this release refers to the name given by the Romans, to the giant forest that stretched from the east coast of England across Kent, Sussex and into Hampshire. Looking north from the Downs, all you`d see were trees. Roads, settlements, villages and towns were created over the centuries, and where Peter lives is part of all that. Lacey loves the idea that it was all once a density of trees, and this became the concept and theme of his new album. Some comments on Lacey`s music. "Beach Boys" fans will love it, as will anyone who still appreciates crafted melodies and harmonies." Kingsley Abbott, Record Collector. "A singer-songwriter of great scope and vision, capable of complex melodic chamber pop. Lacey`s piano and vocals are multi-tracked to resemble a heavenly, Brian Wilson-obsessed host." Paul Johnson, Uncut. "the heir apparent to PADDY McALOON and ANDY PARTRIDGE. The sooner you pick up Anderida, the sooner you can gloat to your friends that you have made one of the most delightful and important artistic discoveries of this new century."-Crawdaddy. "Sonically speaking, Peter Lacey`s third full-length effort does not make any dramatic advancements on his two previous albums. But then, so what? Anderida is every bit as lush, lofty, and melodically rich as BEAM! and Thru a Glass Brightly. And like those, sterling, suite-like marvels, it actively constructs its own shimmering, self-contained world from scratch then proceeds to spin it around you. The angels, anyway, are in the details, and they peak out from behind every corner of Anderida. With .....The music is, as a result, part transcendental Beach Boys (circa Surf`s Up and Sunflower), part alternative, dreamtime Sussex, and part wooded medieval madrigal.

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