TOM BAXENDALE
IN THE CITY A SHORT TIME AGO

TOM BAXENDALE, long-time guitarist with The Payroll Union, strikes out on his own with his debut solo album, In The City a Short Time Ago. A craftsman in the mould of Tom Petty and Elvis Costello, Baxendale writes compact songs with infectious melodies. These 10 expositions on obsession, fidelity, and the compromises of romance, inhabit the bitter, the sweet, and the disorientated. It is a blistering attack on the tropes of modern love, employing familiar phraseology to reveal its distortions and deceptions. It is a record that is smart and subversive. From the irresistibly catchy ‘Red Rag’ to the synth-heartbreaker, ‘Every Dream’, In The City is a pop-philosophy treatise on unconscious desire in the Age of Uncertainty.