Davy O'List "Second Thoughts"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Long Lunch Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 30, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Second Thoughts (8;55)
2. To The Stars (4:07)
3. The Emperor (8:21)
4. Touchwood (6:23)
5. Bonnie K (3:35)
6. Halfway To Heaven (14:31)

Line-up: 
Davy O’List (Roxy Music, The Nice) - guitar, organ, synthesiser, trumpet, special effects, vocals
Andy Tillison (The Tangent, Parallel or 90 Degrees) - keyboards
Paul Brown - bass guitar
David Wagstaffe - drums

Description/Reviews: 

The title track echoes Davy's work with The Nice. It opens with an organ passage that would be at home on The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack. Davy's vocal is functional rather than fancy and not unlike Lee Jackson in style. Andy Tillison's keyboards play-off Davy's guitar, while the rhythm section energetically drives things along. It is an exciting introduction to what is to come. To The Stars opens with bits of guitar, organ and a half-spoken vocal. It soon becomes a sparring match between Tillison's keyboard and Davy's growling and crying guitar.
The Emperor opens with a repeated piano and guitar riff and soon develops into an up-tempo number, with plenty of interplay between guitar and keyboards. Tillison and O'List are both first-rate soloists, who never overplay. Touchwood begins with chorded guitar and a hint of a jazzy feel. Davy's vocal, and the song's repetitive chorus are simple yet effective. Bonnie K is a guitar-driven remake from The Nice's catalogue. It has a bit of an R&B feel to it, which perhaps gives a hint of what the Nice might've become had Davy been in charge.
Halfway To Heaven closes out the album in grand style. It is a 14:31 tour de force, showcasing the band at its proggy best. It opens with Davy singing to modest keyboard backing, only to take flight into a lovely updating of the best elements of late 60s/early 70s psych and prog. The vocal and lyrics are appropriately trippy as the music draws you happily inward. This is an ambitious piece of music but the band is definitely up to the task.

 Read the full review by Rick Collins at dprp.net

Media/Samples 
Second Thoughts 

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