Seemingly out of nowhere comes this top class debut from Australinewzealander Tim Guy. Yes, it’s produced by Bic Runga and she’s all over the album, along with Ed Cake, Ben Maitland, Milan Borich, Brady Blade and many other genius talents. All that aside, it’s a great album that Tim Guy wrote, so lets talk about the music.
Starting with a low-fi blues piece, Blazey soon achieves the extremely pleasant country tinged pop rock that it delivers consistently throughout. Guy has a head for melody & the emphasis is on keeping it relatively simple, laid back, and pretty. My picks are ‘Different Feather’, the toe tapper of the set, with cool harmonies and lyrics about trains, and ‘In the News’, just because it’s really good. Oh, they’re all good…

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