Edgar Summertyme - Sense of Harmony (2012)

Edgar Summertyme- aka Edgar ‘Jones’ Jones, former front man of The Stairs and Mercury music prize nominee, returns with a spectacular, colourful and honest album, that yet again redefines this enigmatic Liverpool legend. After a period of darkness, he has re-emerged with a new Sense of Harmony. The music he has produced on this new album defies category yet obviously comes from the depth of his soul and shines brightly. Soak it all up and wonder how the hell he does it! Truly mind blowing.

In a parallel universe, Edgar ‘Summertyme’ Jones is as revered as Messrs Marr, Weller and Gallagher, N – his three most vocal fans. Jones has been making music since the early ’90s, when he spearheaded Liverpool’s great nearly band The Stairs, and his latest opus is his most triumphant since 2005’s ‘Soothing Music For Stray Cats’, which itself is one of the last decade’s finest albums. It breathes life: from the gloriously rhythmic exoticism of ‘On And On’ (owing much to the great Latin label, Fania Records), to ‘I Would Do Anything’, which is the tastiest song Amy Winehouse never wrote. Another heroic masterpiece from rock’s lost golden boy, then.