Album Review: Josh Orange - Songs For The Journey

When Gordon Burke was the Oblivia frontman, he was calling himself Josh Orange. Now that's the name of the expat Irish singer-songwriter's five-piece band, and this is their second album. The drama of his previous catalogue has long been left behind, replaced by a gentler though still melodic musical vision, delivering quieter, heartfelt, homespun lyrics, with a feel that recalls his pop contemporaries back in Ireland. That said, it's still very much a band album, his fellow musicians bringing enough punch to kick the AM band of your old transistor back to life.