Peel Dream Magazine - PadWith his third album as Peel Dream Magazine, Joseph Stevens beckons you toward a fabulist, zig zag world entirely of his own design. On Pad, he eschews the fuzzy glories of his indie pop past vibraphone trembles while chamber strings take center stage. The curtains lift to reveal banjo. Chimes. Farfisa. And as he lets out a moan atop the albums title track, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary performance. A conceptual work about losing oneself

exudes confidence

Some of the songs have very big sounding production

The incomparable duo

a human spirit

the line-up on 'The Philip Lynott Album' includes his Ultravox band mate Rusty Egan

Tim Hellman keeps it swinging like a battle-axe to the eyebrows

for it was he

Narrated by The RZA

enhanced by an abundance of blood-red design

who previously helmed production on the band s first and third records (The Blue Album and The Green Album)

while musicians recreated these original classic foundation Studio One rhythms

Yet it’s Kilgour’s songwriting sensibilities that hold the album together