BEN SALTER ‎– The Stars My Destination LP

A selection of tracks very much rooted in the melodic head-space of good pop music, but each with a somewhat unconventional sensibility. Songs like ‘Boat Dreams’, all jagged electric guitars and thunderous drums, sit alongside more introspective pieces like ‘I Gotta Move’, with its slide guitar and stirring string fugue; the oddly time signature and blistering sax of ‘Vile Rat’; the haunting acoustic balladry of ‘Parrot Day’; and the epic Velvet Underground-esque space-rock of the title track. It is Salter’s most ambitious statement to date.