George Michael himself.Īs a massive fan of music (he cites his influences as everyone from Abba to Tom Vek, Radiohead to Rihanna, and in a previous myspace world stated that his ambition was to write songs that would ‘make Lady GaGa salivate, Burt Bacharach irate and Carole King prostrate’) is there any one artist that he would cite as the major influence on his work? I don’t remind Pete that I thought Honest Again could have been written by the heath crawling ballad crooning artist Mr. But I kept listening to different things and finding they turned up in my music.’ Like the hauntingly delicate cover of Air’s Venus that appears late on in the album, and somehow fits in seamlessly. ‘For this album I set myself the three reference points of The Pixies, Nirvana and Radiohead. The diversity of genres does not result in something jagged and jumpy, but an excitingly seductive collage of sounds. What is striking about Limehouse is that those elements have been not added on, but absorbed into the songwriting, to create something wholly original yet soothingly familiar. With only twelve notes and limited number of chord arrangements to play with, it is no wonder that artists end up raiding the musical canon. I would love to be able o sit down and say that I am going to produce an album in the style of x, or write a collection of songs that is purely y, but the truth is, I get bored.’ The kind of man who is a fan of music, rather than a fan of a particular genre of music, Limehouse is a smorgasboard of a whole variety of styles and riffs.

A self set challenge, it is his admiration of artists such as Ryan Adams who regularly produce good, consistent output that his inspired him to do this. He has just released his second album, Limehouse which marks the first of what should be a prolific rate of work that will see him releasing a collection of ten songs every six months. Not just in that he is a slightly quirky bloke to have a chat with, but that his music is engaging, exciting, classic and complex, whilst being simple and instantaneously captivating. Peter Darling is something of a unique proposition. Singers, songwriters, singer songwriters…everywhere you look more seem to appearing.

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