JASON WALKER – CEILING SUN LETTERS
Jason Walker will be the first to tell you he doesn’t look anything like Mick Jagger; he is not known for his snake-like hips, his lips are somewhat thin in comparison to Mick’s famous pout, truth be known (although he is two decades younger) Jagger has him in the hair stakes too. But listen to The Devil That You Know or the country-rock of So Far and you could be excused for thinking this was Exile-era Jagger. That is not to say that Ceiling Sun Letters is a one-trick pony, far from it; five years in the making, a great deal of personal anguish, pain – mental and physical – and soul-searching have gone into this opus. As Walker sings about dancing (albeit badly) to treasures of his childhood record collection you can hear the results across this album. Along with talented pop producer Michael Carpenter, they have drawn extensively from classic pop of the last four decades, from afore-mention country-rock of The Stones to the alt-pop of Grandaddy and The Smashing Pumpkins – Ashes – via a little bit of Alex Chilton’s Big Star – Everybody’s in Debt. Perhaps unfortunately, proving that from great depths, can come great art, Ceiling Sun Letters is a classic album in any era.
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