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www.jackbadcock.com [Release date 03.05.24]
Jack Badcock is best known as frontman and founding member of Dallahan. After releasing ‘The Driftwood Project’ EP in 2021 we now arrive in 2024 and Jack Badcock releases his first solo album.
Jack plays guitar, piano and bass on the album, being joined by notable guest musicians including Siobhan Miller, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) and Dallahan bandmate Andrew Waite.
Opening with the three part, eight minute epic that is ‘Life In Three Dimensions’, the listener know they are in for an album that both entertains and makes you think. Jack’s singing is easy on the ear and his piano playing adds extra pizazz to the music.
On the bluesy, jazzy ‘The Ghost of Leland Birch’ Jack Badcock recalls the 70′s singer songwriting heyday of Chris de Burgh. It is the storytelling through music that makes this one, and indeed the whole album, a delight.
Other highlights include ‘The English Samurai’, based on the true story of William Adams, the first Englishman to reach Japan and another jazz flavoured song, ‘Entropy’.
Then we have the album’s pinnacle in ‘How To Raise A Child’. Written during lockdown, the lyric pulls no punches condemning the incarceration of children worldwide. The choral outro of the chorus line – ‘Make our world a home, raise them as your own’ – highlights perfectly the power of music.
An album of musical beauty from the talented Jack Badcock. ****
Review by Jason Ritchie
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