Sometimes I think I hear so much new music that it starts to get a little hard trying to pick out the 'gold medalists' from the 'also rans' but there are a couple of things that never fail to switch me onto a winner. The first is if I find myself humming a few bars when I'm running around doing the day to day. The second is if the kids ask me to play it in the car on the way to school.
Songs from Peter Moore's new release 'Never Too Late' passed both of these tests and I found myself warming to this strong set of songs from the first listen. There are some quite diverse tones on this album. There's 'warm/lovely', 'dark/moody'and even 'funk/rocky' but at all times it remains very 'musical'. The vocals are of a very high standard and show off the utter 'tunefullness' of the songs. There are at least four tracks that could easily get played on commercial radio including "Learn to love again, Something Inside of Me, I Just Want You and It Hurts Me So.
This really is a very solid effort for a first release. When you consider that the whole album was written, performed and produced entirely as a solo project in the artist's home studio I can only wonder what the future may bring from this very talented songwriter. Bec Harding (Music Times Sept 05)
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Peter Moore’s ‘Never Too Late’ begins with a well crafted fast funk track with soaring guitar' ........ then 'quickly settles into it’s stride with track two’s warm, radio-friendly ‘Learn To Love Again’. The lilting clarity of Peter’s vocals and his talent for easy-listening original melodies continues to shine through with the gentle ‘It Hurts Me So’, and is reinforced even more convincingly in ‘Something Inside Me’. But it is the strong, free-flowing, alternative country feel of ‘I Just Want You’ that takes the album to a whole new level.
While ‘Hold On To Me’ best showcases the appealingly raw, gravelly quality of Peter’s voice, it is the powerful, emotive ‘Oh Papa’ which truly holds the listener hostage'. "This is followed by yet another beautifully synthesized, vocal-free soundscape which ends way too soon, leaving one wanting more. The final track ‘I Miss You’ is another well-crafted and commanding slow rock-pop ballad which, like several other songs on this album, would be very at home on the commercial music charts.
What is most impressive here is that Peter is not only responsible for all the songwriting, the lead vocals and the rich, sweeping musical arrangements on this album, he can also be credited with playing all the instruments and doing all the sound engineering himself. With this masterfully self-recorded work, he has proven his flare as a multi-skilled artist and songwriter, and I wouldn’t be surprised if his talent is picked up by the commercial music industry in the future.
Eva St John White Light Magazine