If Wayward Path, Duane Hoover’s first album, an album so recent you are most cdertainly still humming the tunes, was, in part at least, his celebration of and tribute to the sound of seminal British Invasion bands, not least The Who, his next one, has that place’s 70’s glam scene, and perhaps to a greater degree, T. Rex in its sights.
While you will have to wait a couple more months for the full fab and groovy waxing, as they might have put it back then, to drop, the new single, “Just an Everyday Thing,” is your first glorious taste of what is to come.
And glorious is the right word, a song full of shuffling grooves, that dusty, analogue density that you associate with recordings made in that era, a buoyant sing-along-able chorus, snaking guitar lines, and Hoover’s slippery and slightly world weary vocals.
It’s all about authenticity. As it struts along, you can almost hear the platform heels click-clacking, the swish of flared trousers, and the smell of Charlie Blue and Pina Colada’s hanging in the air.
The time has come for a reappraisal of that oft-much-maligned era, and this is a reminder that for every Bay City Rollers there was a Mark Bolan, for every Sweet there was a Roxy Music. And for every modern revivalist trying to rewrite history to suit themselves, there is a Duane Hoover delivering the sonic facts!
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