Album review: PLAYER – Too Many Reasons

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Player return with their first album in over ten years and this full album follows an EP released last year on Frontiers. The new lineup features original members Peter Beckett and Ronn Moss along with Rob Math (guitars), Johnny English (keyboards) and Craig Pilo (drums). Player have a long pedigree and are often classed in the yacht rock genre, which seems to have become a new buzz word lately, although AOR in the vein of the Little River Band and America are better reference points.

The band have amazing harmonies, check out ‘You’re My Addiction’ or ‘I Will’ (with an accompanying YouTube video) and you can tell Peter Beckett spent some time in the Little River Band, as these songs reminded me a lot of that band. ‘Precious’ is a great pop rocker, again their vocals hit the spot and a little guitar crunch keeps things ticking over nicely.

They rework their biggest hit ‘Baby Come Back’ as a bonus song and it fits into the album as they haven’t really changed their overall sound much down through the years. There is also a cover of ‘Kites’, a hit for Simon Dupree & the Big Sound. Not essential maybe but they add their stamp over it to good effect.

This is an enjoyable and high quality AOR album, one to add to your ‘to get’ lists.

****

Jason Ritchie

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