Stream and revisit: Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past week is ‘Moments’, the second LP from Jamie Webster.
“It’s alright being the people’s poet, but how do you know what they want when most of the time they don’t even know it themselves?”
“Jamie Webster’s meteoric rise, a la Gerry Cinamon, has been a magic carpet ride, transporting him from humble sparky’s job to selling out arenas, all on a ticket of meeting the slings and arrows of 21st century life head on.”
“It was this philosophy of all-in-it-togetherness which ran through his debut album We Get By like a stick of rock, but his seemingly relentless upward journey was brought to a halt by you know what, as the audience whom connecting with was so important were put under voluntary mass house arrest.”
“Doubts at this point for any musician were natural – as was the then-26-year-old deciding to meet them head on. The outcome for a man who began writing songs to escape is that Moments is a gift to be heard universally, an album of expanded horizons that leaves him scant hope of turning back.”
