I'm rather taken by Undone at 31, the new solo album by New Zealander Martin Frawley. It seems to document a stressful breakup in his own personal life which has long been fertile territory for great albums going back to the days of Dylan, Neil Young and Big Star.
Frawley mines much of this seam yet somehow manages to come across as familiar and original at the same time. I suspect the record will reward repeated plays. He makes this listener think of him as something of a Kevin Morby in his melancholic moods but also draws on his own back catalogue as a member of the now defunct Twerps who themselves took notes from the golden legacy of the Flying Nun records and bands of the Eighties and Nineties.
A fine album results, documenting bruised and lethargic mid life trauma which all but the most fortunate among us have experienced at some time or other. I direct you to the Pop Matters site where a good friend of mine and supporter of this blog has written a fine and more detailed account.
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