Harper Simon: Harper Simon | Cd review

(PIAS Recordings)It's taken Paul Simon's son a good long while to make his first album – he's 37 – but when your father casts such a long shadow, that's perhaps understandable. It starts with a stately piece of chamber pop, All to God, that could have come from one of the cult albums cut by Eric Matthews in the 90s. It's a red herring, though: next up is Wishes and Stars, which sounds uncannily like something from one of Simon & Garfunkel's mid-60s records, with Simon's voice â€...

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