Nottingham’s Peter Hall, has followed his exquisite cover of The Jam’s ‘English Rose’ with his debut EP. ‘There’s Something Wrong With Everyone’ is out now via Beautiful Music.
Despite the debut status, Hall emerges with a class, usually associated with someone making their third album masterpiece. Opener ‘Hold Me, takes the eloquence of the early Bee Gees records and kisses them with delicate vocals of Kevin Parker (Tame Impala), the innocence of Elliot Smith and a sun drenched Colin MacIntyre (Mull Historical Society). Then, just when you think you have him pegged, it melts away into a Curtis Mayfield solo.
‘Everything Is Fading Fast’, re-imagines ‘Live Forever’ for the older and wiser folk. It acknowledges life is precious in way a younger polemic never could. However, it’s defiant, determined and living in the moment as if life depended on it.
Despite hailing from Nottingham, there is something beautifully scouse about his music. ‘Hold Me’ and ‘Blood Flow’ enter an alternate reality where Sice (The Boo Radleys) is backed by Crosby Stills and Nash’s harmonies. Meanwhile, ‘Everything Is Fading Fast’ has Shack’s forlorn jangle combining with The Stands’ Howie Payne vocals.
The biggest criticism of the EP is, it’s not an album. This is an astonishing EP and the entire world should know about!