Single Review: Younger

Anthony Coulter

Review by Kev Rowland // 16 March 2023

Here we have the latest single from Anthony Coulter’s album Pilgrimage To the Sea, where he says he is not getting any younger, something I can really relate to given I am 60 in just a few months and certainly act a lot more than I used to. Mind you, I don’t think every day is the same, which is the same for Anthony who yearns to be younger.

Musically Younger is a pop number that has had additional keyboards and beats layered on top of what was (I think) originally performed on acoustic guitar. There are times when the accompaniment is very much to the fore and the chorus is repeated quite frequently, and the result is something which sounds as if it was all performed by Anthony, with little room for the song to breathe in a simpler form.

There is a nice key change near the end, which injects some brightness, but the keyboards are quite dated, and it would be interesting to hear this in a more stripped down format, as for me they are quite overpowering.

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About the author Kev Rowland

From 1990 – 2006 I ran Feedback fanzine in the UK, writing about bands that were rarely covered in the mainstream press, many of whom were in the underground scene. I built close ties with many British Progressive groups in particular, including writing the newsletter for Freewill, getting gigs for Credo and writing the introduction to Galahad’s OCMDII compilation. I reviewed literally thousands of cassettes and then CDs from bands from throughout the world, and was lucky enough to interview many of them. During this period I also contributed to the French progzine Acid Dragon, wrote for the music newspaper Rock ‘n’ Reel and was also involved with the Ghostland website. In 2006 I moved to NZ, and stopped running Feedback (which was then renamed Amplified after I left, at my request) having produced over 80 editions with more than 11,000 pages of print and heaven knows how many reviews

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