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Review: 'Reeves, Billy'
'Nostalgia Of the Future'   

-  Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '17.3.23.'

Our Rating:
Nostalgia Of The Future is the new solo album by Billy Reeves who was previously in among others TheAudience, Blow Up and Congregation.

The album opens with You Can't Take Him Anywhere that slowly strums its way into life as a Brechtian drunken streetwise modern cabaret of life's mishaps, the mayhem a certain friend causes, he's so boorish you wonder if his friends called Boris.

The most recent single Drift is next but on the album it's twice as long as the single edit, as this very gently pleads with you to not wake him up, just leaving him drifting on a summer's afternoon, sparko on the couch, dreaming and wondering, happy to still be breathing needing cuddles once more, as the lush lullaby caresses your musical soul. He dreams of getting up and sticking on his nails and blusher when he finally does shake of that torpor, stretching out slowly in a Pilates routine to wake up totally refreshed too, eventually stretching his legs as well as his fingers winding there way up and down those frets once more.

Golden Days is telling you to keep moving forwards and to avoid looking back to those Golden Days too much, as they kind of don't exist, yet Billy is the sort of musician who can look back to his Golden Days in TheAudience and The Congregation or playing for Blow Up, maybe even play a reunion tour or two. This will have you joining in on the la la las of the chorus in no times a very catchy first single from the album.

Enfield Running has Billy planning renovations on what I thought was an Enfield Motorbike, or possibly even a car, this sounds like wistful 70's tv soundtrack song with the Likely Lads style bonhomie of trying to get going on the project.

As You Do is about deciding you've changed and won't be quite as wasted or obnoxious as your close friends may still be and wanting out of the friendship, on a song that slowly builds into a Mott the Hoople style unplugged ballad for enjoying more sobriety and leaving that person behind.

Scorned keeps up the theme as he's just a mediocre white guy that's been Scorned, narrated in a play for today style, the lyrics are perfect for a segment of a play as the sad sack has to walk away in shame and dismay, once more walking along rain spattered streets in the gloom. The instrumental section as he walks into an ever more desperate place ready to decay.

My Library takes us on a stroll through a town just before massive urban regeneration starts and destroys the vibe, as you won't be able to go for a drink in the CIU club in the local football clubs bar, the one at Enfield's ground was always a great place for a drink, so don't let them pull it all down.

Slow Down At Christmas starts slowly, a piano and string led plea to stop all the madness, nonstop running here there and everywhere, to make a perfect Christmas, but of course with all the strikes this Christmas, even more so if your reviewing this as an Xmas in February song as I am today. It could be that Billy thinks we should all be on that picket line this year. This has a wispy gently relaxing feel to it, perfect for after Christmas dinner when no one can move around too much. This will now be my first Xmas review for 2023.

Waiting is an organ led hymn to friendship, hoping not to be left alone, needing the comfort of a spectral guitar solo that friend will bring to you, as well as the other things that friend might bring, not sure if Billy has the cash with him or not. The outro is sort of filmic insert music.

The album closes with the Radio Edit of Golden Days still telling you to keep moving forwards and to avoid looking back to those Golden Days too much, as they kind of don't exist, making not to swear this time, so lets all sing along with this once more as I have certainly heard it enough for that now. Happy to keep hearing this on repeat.

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  author: simonovitch

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