Lovelock

***Legendary synthesis wizard STEVE MOORE returns with his soft rock disco alter ego, LOVELOCK—stepping out of the time machine and jumping into your tape deck via Italians Do It Better. Picking up where his brilliant 2012 debut Burning Feeling left off, Moore comes back with a guitar driven, sax laced modern yacht rock soundscape. Imagine Christopher Cross stumbling into a smoke-filled after hours hole in the wall off the 101. Camera pans to the bar to reveal Michael McDonald & Alan Parsons red-eyed behind a few glasses of whiskey. “This album is inspired by sophisti-pop, yacht rock & R&B from the late 70’s & early 80’s. Not necessarily the hits though. Someone is meant to feel more like a collection of tracks from private press LPs. Crate digger gold that sounds both familiar & alien at the same time. Once while traveling in Italy, I bought a 2xLP collection of 'Top Hits of the 80’s'—most of the songs I had never heard before, yet they all gave me a sense of familiarity as they were all undoubtedly meant to sound like songs I have heard. That’s the sort of ‘uncanny valley’ type feeling I was chasing with this album.”—Steve Moore