Lannie Flowers - Home

The Big Stir and Spyderpop tie in allows the latest Lannie Flowers album to get a second wind and Home is magnificent. It is as magnificent as his previous solo albums and as magnificent as his music with The Pengwins. The man not being massive is one of those great injustices and surely this is the album to change this.

As a long time fan, I continually look for reasons why. I'm not sure that the previous Power Pop label does him any favours. Flowers is much more than that. Indeed on Free To Dream and I Got A Secret, there is far more of s Van Morrison feel. It certainly isn't Material Issue.

Anyway and In Time verge on great mellow Beatles Pop. Flowers is just as great when he lets loose as  he does here on the wonderful It's All Over and Running. Across the album however the noise is held back a little and that further demonstrates the song craft.

TV Off ventures into Psych Pop successfully with a killer Blues solo, but, as an album, Home, at heart, is very reflective, a real storytelling album. Never more so than on Missing You Tonight, He's Going Home and Anyway. The latter is pure McCartney Pop.

It's All Over is a four minute epic and the title track is bouncy pop of the title track is joyous. I never expected this album to be anything other than great. It fully deserves a reissue. Home still contains the hooks, but is a much mature and reflective affair and this maturity results in one hell of an album.

So if you like Home (and I can see no reason why you wouldn't), tell everyone that you do. It really is time for Lannie Flowers to breakout across the whole wide world, not just a few American States. Home is fantastic, shout it from the rooftops.

You can listen to and buy the album here. You can also purchase the album here.  Home is available on CD, Double Vinyl LP and as a download. It is released on Friday 23 July.


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