- Backroads is the ninth album released by Lloyd Spiegel. Generally known for acoustic blues music, Backroads is more guttural blues and an honest raw account of his life. Spiegel has made a shift back to electric guitar which he has not done since being a teenager and I can tell he's had a lot of fun playing with the sound. Lloyd worked with Cole Clark Guitars creating a new design specifically for this recording that will allow and enhance his own style.

Backwards needs to be recognised as a stand alone album, quite distinct from previous work.

- Can an album’s name give someone a sense of trepidation? That the nomenclature chosen for a particular release can prejudice a listener before the first track drops on their speakers? Yes, it can.

- I want to say, no! You can’t have another Lehmann B. Smith record until you go back and finish the last one. Perennially underhearlded, now sending out a seventh, lovingly crafted full-length into a cold and uncaring world, it’s time to say: is it a problem with him, or is it you? Yeah it’s you.

- Actress has always been an ambiguous and exploratory endeavour for Darren Jordan Cunningham as his discography to date listens as a continual reach beyond the artist and their subseq uent hardware.

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