NEW AND NOTABLE: upcoming albums

[Ruby]

It's around that time of year my Pavlov's Dog albums get taken out and given their annual airing, when lo and behold, a brand new track is released! I haven't kept up with them since Pampered Menial and At the Sound of the Bell because David Surkamp was not sounding good IMHO, nor was the music, and after two such great releases, what followed just seemed blegh by comparison. 

I hope that this track, which I actually like, is not the best of the album to be released next week - Prodigal Dreamer. No clips on YT which is hardly surprising, so here's a Spotify link to "Paris" .... https://open.spotify.com/album/7subKAR5gMVeFxAdeAg0Dk

The lineup will have changed considerably since way back who knows when, but this is the closest I've heard them come to all that promise. Very nice strings which can make a huge difference. The lyrics make a reference to Neverland (Peter Pan) "second to the left, went straight on til morning, I missed the way you chose to go". While I would not peg Surkamp as PP (that moniker belongs to Jeff Beck), he does appear to have found a new lease of life! Who'dathought??!

https://www.loudersound.com/news/pavlovs...n-december