DUKE SPECIAL - Songs From The Deep Forest Review

Belfast’s answer to Rufus Wainwright — only he has dreadlocks and kids — Peter Wilson’s second album first appeared in the spring as a set of singles. He does the expansive and fabulous very well too, and probably at a fraction of the cost. Songs such as Freewheel and Something Better Happen are better than anything on the last Divine Comedy offering. All in all this is an excellent example of something you’ve heard many times before....full text It's hard to find the exact words to describe Duke Special. There are so, so many singer songwriters around, often with interesting things to say, good melodies, nice voices. Special has all that, but he's somehow skewed. And I'm not just saying that because he looks like a refugee from Evanesence....full text You'd expect a singer-songwriter with dreadlocks and smoky eyeliner to sound fairly unusual, especially when he's foregone his own name, Peter Wilson, for a showy moniker, and calls his songs things like Wake Up Scarlett and Salvation Tambourine. Apparently not....full text