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Harper Simon - Division Street Album Review


You often wonder, staring through the frosty shop window of an outsider's perspective, how it must work for the sons and daughters of famous musicians. Harper Simon is the offspring of none other than Paul (with his first wife Peggy Harper) and having someone so iconic changing your nappy has certainly opened some doors; collaborations (Yoko Ono, Daniel Merriwether), film soundtracks (Abel Ferrrara's The Blackout & New Rose Hotel, Bruce Beresford's Peace, Love & Understanding) and then -  most infamously of all -  a youthful cameo on Sesame Street.

Harper Simon - Division Street Album Review

Perhaps strings were pulled to make the latter happen, but Simon's self-titled 2010 début was produced by veteran Bob Johnston - a former Johnny Cash studio man - and featured a host of rootsy session musicians with CVs long enough to choke a dozen donkeys. It wasn't exactly a surprise that the end product navigated pristine country rock territory, but the more hirsute cadre of the rock press loved it, a facet which may have proved some compensation for its mostly cult appeal.

Tom Rothrock assumes duties this time round, and Division Street relocates its feeling of inspiration from Nashville to sixties LA. His former customers have included Beck and the tragically doomed Elliott Smith but, reassuringly, he isn't troubled by the kind of idiosyncracies they must've brought to the table. The reason for this is that the songs here are by and large sweetly crafted and easy on the ear, indebted to dappled sunshine and the kind of indie rock construct which made The Shins into bona fide US rock royalty overnight on 2007s Chutes Too Narrow.

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Harper Simon Announces New Album 'Division Street' Out March 25th, 2013

Posted on07 December 2012

 Harper Simon Announces New Album 'Division Street' Out March 25th, 2013

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