Peter AstorAnd The Holy Road

Paradise became for many the album in which Astor, along with The Holy Road, most perfectly expressed his indubitable facility as a singer and songwriter. All his enduring musical references - from classic British guitar pop to New-York punk via the blues and even jazz - seem to blend into a fully-formed vision, one which envisions a kind of mythic America whilst always cleaving to European, and specifically British, roots. Twenty-seven years later, with Tapetes re-release, Paradise is a vital addition to a body of work which sounds as good now as it did then.