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Gap Year – Life’s A Show

Release Date – April 2nd

Those old watchwords ring true: patience is a virtue.

Gap Year’s Carl Deighton’s first album comes many years after his initial discovery of that fluttering passion only music can ignite in your chest – that wave of creativity built up to breaking point and crashed into the heady surf that forms Life’s A Show. An album that combines the headrush of discovery with a seasoned experience from a man who realized his affinity with the musical spirit upon the first twinkles on his grandmother’s piano as a child, his entry into a school choir, and his first encounter with guitar – this is a release that proves the youthfulness of rock is its most precious commodity.

From the country-tinged ballad The Whole Night Long to the rock-out put-down of celebrity culture on the title track it’s obvious Life’s A Show is a culmination of hundreds of ideas, musical and lyrical, and their stylish execution. It’s an album of open-hearted honesty, without the overwhelming emotionalism of some of Gap Year’s influences – Don Maclean, Neil Young, David Gray, The Beatles, Eagles, Crosby, Stills and Nash.

“I’m one of life’s instinctive individuals,” says the London-based songwriter. Deighton has clearly tapped into that well of rock energy that the purest rock and roll comes from – primal tendencies channelled through struck chords and crashing cymbals – and combined it with the melodicism of a cage of birds.

Do what you were always advised not to and judge a book by its cover: Life’s A Show’s cover depicts the crash of a wave on a sea wall. Gap Year will hit you with that same oceanic force.