Jeremy - 2024 - The Future Is the Past
(47:54; Jam Records)
Released in the middle of 2024, here we have another collaboration between Jeremy Morris (vocals, guitar, piano) and Ken Stringfellow (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums). Jeremy may not be well-known to many, but he has more than 100 albums to his name while Ken (The Posies, R.E.M., Big Star) has more than 200, so they definitely know what they are doing. One never really knows what one is going to get when seeing a new Jeremy album, given he works in so many different genres, but as soon as it is opened up and the name of Stringfellow is seen we know it will be another power pop outing with psychedelic stylings which sound as if it could have been released at the end of the Sixties. It will contain loads of vocal harmonies, 12-string guitars, hooks aplenty and a smile will be on the face of the listener even before it hits the player.
This is feelgood pop music, not pandering to any current fashion but instead taking influences from the like of The Byrds, The Beatles, Teenage Fanclub, The Hollies and so many more. Sure, this is music which is looking back to a style of music which was popular nearly 60 years ago, but who cares? I was just four years old in the Summer of Love, but was already keen on music (my earliest musical memory is my dad asking me my favourite bands to which I replied, The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits and Marmalade) and have always felt a close affinity to the music from that period and this album takes us right back in a glorious time machine. However, it must be realised that this is not some covers outfit as all the songs are Morris originals, it is just they have taken major influences from that period and have now brought in lovingly into the 21st century as if it had never left us. These two musicians continue to deliver great albums time after time, and here is another fine example.
Kev Rowland, January 2025
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