CD REVIEW: DAVEY LANE – Atonally Yours

Shane | 20 December 2014 | Reply

CD REVIEW: DAVEY LANE – Atonally Yours
Field Recordings/MGM
3 October, 2014
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
8/10

You Am I guitar masher Davey Lane exchanges the Who/Faces riffing of his day job for an altogether trippier approach on his debut solo album Atonally Yours.

Single Komarov opens the record, a spacey, airy nod to the real-life story of a Russian cosmonaut plummeting out of control through the atmosphere as his spacecraft burns up on re-entry.

Lane’s guitar still takes centre stage throughout the album, but he takes full advantage of being He With Whom The Buck Stops, and explores a myriad of styles, instruments, some low-key sampled beats, and loads of wacky sound effects.

The result is, above all else, engaging and fun. Atonally Yours sounds like not only a labour of love, but the work of an artist, and his songwriting – from the garage freakout of She’s A Timebomb, through disco guitar pop of A Witch In My Mind, angular new wave rock of Not An Option Now, Lennon-esque space jam of Last Of The Freakazoids and the ‘70s styled prog pop of Portal To Another Lyfe – is exemplary, and – along with his singing – very much underrated.

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