{"id":3137,"date":"2018-12-23T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2018-12-20T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T10:19:03","slug":"pete-berwick-islands-self-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3137","title":{"rendered":"Pete Berwick – Islands (Self Release)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>True country roamer Pete Berwick is back and ready to tell it exactly how it is with his new album, \u2018Island\u2019. Channelling influences from Bruce Springsteen to Steve Earle, Berwick has spent many years walking on the dusty side of the country road, spinning lonely nomadic tales of sorrow and heartbreak.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following on from the punchy \u2018The Legend of Tyler Doohan\u2019, released in 2015, \u2018Island\u2019 immediately offers something a little different with the opener \u2018I\u2019m Getting Tired of This Place\u2019. While the former album opens with a punch, you can\u2019t help feeling that this one finds Berwick in a weary, tired mood \u2013 a feeling that permeates through the entirety of the album. The album is no less striking, however. On the contrary, \u2018Island\u2019 is truly a fantastic piece of work.<\/p>\n

The album is once again packed with stories and multi-layered characters, whilst also appearing deeply introspective. Berwick is a master of getting his storytelling across, and here this depth is backed up by the superb backing band, The Mugshot Saints. The album is something of a journey, from the bitterness of the opener to the romantic last notes of hope on \u2018The Streets of Pasadena\u2019. The album does indeed begin and end on the streets.<\/p>\n

Tracks such as \u2018Anyway\u2019 offer the familiar country-on-hard-times sound, while others reflect the aforementioned world-weariness, such as title track \u2018Island\u2019 and \u2018I Am Not Afraid\u2019. Others detail his need to hide, for example in \u2018Let\u2019s Make It You and Me Tonight\u2019. Berwick is certainly not afraid to turn on the big choruses for this one, and songs such as \u2018One Setback at a Time\u2019, \u2018I\u2019m Really Not That Kind\u2019 and \u2018They Gave Love a Chance\u2019 are standout tracks on a collectively brilliant album.<\/p>\n

\u2018Island\u2019 is a perfect slice of alternative-country rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, full of the dust and grit to be expected from Pete Berwick. And with excellent musicianship complimenting honest songwriting, it is also quite possibly his best album to date.<\/p>\n

Author: Craggy Collyde<\/p>\n

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True country roamer Pete Berwick is back and ready to tell it exactly how it is with his new album, \u2018Island\u2019. Channelling influences from Bruce Springsteen to Steve Earle, Berwick has spent many years walking on the dusty side of the country road, spinning lonely nomadic tales of sorrow and heartbreak. Following on from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}