Album Review: Josh Orange - Songs For The Journey

6 March 2014 | 4:02 pm | Michael Smith

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.



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.