Ping

Ping is the work of the Wirral-born bassist of Deaf School and frontman of new wave chart act The Planets who would later become a music exec known for his ears and acumen. “In my head,” confides Steve Avo Lindsey, making his solo long-playing debut just five decades into his music career, “this sounds like a Nick Lowe album.” It’s hardly surprising that these twelve tracks offer more than just fond footnotes to Nick Lowe. Factor in Lindsey’s love of Donald Fagen and Jimmy Webb, Arctic Monkeys and Tom Waits, Todd Rundgren and Nashville-style storytelling, and his lo-fi, groove-driven takes on Motown, and you’ll have an idea of what to expect from this joyful, playful, gorgeously varied sheaf of love letters to music and Merseyside, sweaters and Swordfishtrombones.