Before Your Summer Fades received a great review in the Big Takeover this week. Check it out!
The Big Takeover, April 2018
Blank Pages
Before Your Summer Fades (FDR)
Singer/guitarist/songwriter Greg Potter has been leading Blank Pages for 23 years and four previous LPs, and even parenthood and a seven-year sabbatical couldn’t break a melodic power-pop jones. His trio come out unusually hard, with a deft guitar prowess on the confident and catchy “Take the Stage” (please do!).
At least two chord changes validate self-comparison to Sloan, too. Though like those Canadians, over 12 songs there’re 50-year-old touchstones from the early Who—whose “Substitute” they’ve covered—to The Monkees. Plus, there’re harmonies and licks like later XTC, Material Issue, Fountains of Wayne, and Bye Bye Blackbirds. They get winsome on lighter acoustic numbers; but that guitar-pop heart beats on. (fdrlabel.com)
– Jack Rabid
