Album Notes

Chicago singer songwriter, Brad Peterson, has reemerged in recent years after a somewhat successful career with his former band peatmoss. Succeeding his acclaimed “The Red Album” is the highly anticipated: “The Ductape Album”.

“The Ductape Album” is the next evolutionary step or the artist who’s known for his ability to create warm and poignant pop gems in under a minute-fifty. BP delivers this endearing collection of work about love, struggle, spirituality, failure and beauty with the words and tones of seasoned songsmith. From the opening and strident track: “More”, about compulsion and wanting to be a better person, “The Ductape Album” takes grip of the listeners heart. “Ducktape” continues with a nostalgic, if not comedic, examination of one’s own broken state and the attempt to be “tapped back together”. Other songs also deliver moving imagery like: “Happy Birthday” suggesting “lets celebrate today because tomorrow you could be gone” or “favorite” describing party guests trashing the place –all with heady and original yet familiar melodic sensibility. If there were any “swore thumbs” in “The Ductape Album” [to put it harshly] it might be “Today is One I’ll Rue” which channels an oddly placed Celtic influence which is exquisitely followed by the record’s closer: “The First Robin” –a brilliant number about the first sunny day in spring.

Bottom line: this record score an “A” or “A+” and one should attain a copy of it by any means and play it for friends.