Album Review – You’re A Lighthouse, I’m At Sea by Spencer Segelov & Great Paintings (2024) (Country Mile Records)
This You’re A Lighthouse, I’m At Sea album by Welsh-pop stalwart Spencer Segelov (The School, Sweet Baboo, etc.) has the sort of retro-pop allure that matches the ‘everything flirtations’ of their Country Mile Records labelmate, Armstrong.
On this release, the listener is treated to a trip through the vagaries of pop-rock yesteryear on the coattails of the sort of gentile melodies that appear to come so easily to Segelov that it almost seems a tad precocious.
As such, opener Don’t You Know is joined by The Contender in taking pop-rock mid-tempos and vocals and resting them upon Big Star-style incidental jangled riffs, which are then intermittently pierced by 80s classic rock electric riffs, whereas the title track is all manner of Terje Torkellsen/The Candy Strypers assuaged 60s pop, which are then seamlessly transformed to Simon and Garfunkel twinkling melodies in Through A Joke and Call It Sympathy.
Nestled in between the 60s and 80s of the tracks above lies the best of the album. Here Under the Lights, And We Get Burned, and the simply superlative Friends With Playlists evoke memories of all things Rabbit and Dave Edmunds with their lazy melodies and washed-out perennial earworms.
This is bound to be a contender for many end of the year-end ‘best ofs’ in all the micro pop-blogs that matter !
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