Dalton Dalton CD

Starting as it means to go on, 'Bedford & Grand' opens the album with a melancholic piano refrain which captures the essence of Flaming Lips re-writing Badfinger classic 'Without You'. Ending much like it started 'So Long So Well' polishes things off with a broken guitar and a bruised microphone. In between Dalton pays his own subtle tribute to the history of alternative North American rock with a sound which nods at the maverick ghosts of Talking Heads, Neil Young, Afghan Whigs, Guided By Voices and beyond, at one particularly surreal point actually rekindling the sunshine-shuffling flame of Blightys very own Mungo Jerry. So it's sad rock, but hard-edged, forever accompanied by Nates terrifically lived-in vocals.

1. Bedford ; Grand 2. Breaker 3. What Never Should End 4. New Time 5. for the Last 6. Only Names 7. Control 8. Autumnal 9. Second Life (Afterglow) 10. So Long, So Well