South London’s finest purveyors of classic rock songcraft , The Steve Eggs Band, return with another fine release.

Release Date: 11th April 2025

Label: Independent

Format: CD

REFINED SONGCRAFT

The Steve Eggs band are back with another fine selection of songs recorded at Temple Music Studios in Surrey, the recording facility set up by the late Jon Hiseman, legendary drummer in Colosseum. A new album by The Steve Eggs Band is never about sudden musical changes or departures but more about refining songcraft and instrumentation supporting the songs. Nevertheless you can feel that the band has moved slightly towards a more contemporary style since their last album Lazarus Lights with keyboards featuring more heavily than on their first two albums Hometown Skyline and We Humans.

Starting with the epic The Strangest Feeling clocking at almost seven minutes. A mid-tempo rocker anchored by steady drums and an hypnotic bass line, the song proves to be a great opener with the usual catchy chorus the band seems to be able to summon at will ! Top marks again to Jon Kershaw who colours the song with subtle licks and arpeggios and brings the house down with a great extended solo. Things move towards a poppier direction with Almost Talking, a track that Difford and Tilbrook wouldn’t have minded writing! A propulsive power pop number that has hints of the Kinks’ She’s Got Everything, it proves to be another memorable track. Sugar and Blood slows the pace down a little with its gentle pace and circling riff but soon picks up steam with a blistering instrumental break that will surely bring the house down when played live.

POWER POP GOODNESS

Next Time Around is another fine song that enables Eggs to showcase his chops at coming up with a catchy chorus and Jon Kershaw to come up with another blistering solo. We are back in more familiar territory with A Place In The World, an earnest rocker with a catchy chorus and a steady tempo, a style that remains the bands strong point. Great guitars, a rhythm section firing on all cylinders, three and a half minutes of power pop goodness ! Built around the bouncy bass line of Peter Wass, Cheap Hotel sees the band try something different and would have made a perfect theme song for an early noughties sitcom.

We return to foot on the pedal rocker with the excellent Bad Line, bring on the convertible on Route 66, put on the volume at 12 on the stereo and you are winning ! The waltz Devils and Angels provides us with a more reflective tone but finishes with another great solo. Wings is another fine example of clever song arrangement, the guitar lick in the verses provides a more than memorable hook (coupled with the subtle keyboards in the background) giving the song an eighties feel but still retaining an organic feel. Even In The Darkness Night proves to be another earworm that you will keep humming throughout the day while the rollicking Spinning Wheel harks back to the bands debut album Hometown Skyline.

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