Peter Doran appears, going by his accent, to come from the same place as Ronan Keating and a barrage of Irish singer-songwriters (an inhospitable but over-sincere place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean). I’ve been guilty of this as a singer myself, and presumably it’s how we’ll all speak when we eventually become the 51st State of America (it’s coming).
Putting this gripe aside, at its best Doran’s debut is an inventive acoustically-driven concoction, falling between the winding indie blues of Gomez (particularly on the opening track ‘Hunter’s Sketches’) and the guitar-picking intimacy of Neil Young (‘Steeped in You’). All told, a solid outing.
Key Track: ‘Steeped in You’