Wow, that was wonderful! Listening to ‘Old New York’ is a charming jump into the crooning era, a perfect record for any nostalgic music fans out there. Drenched in retro, 60s pop flair, the record builds its unique identity on a slow-burn ballad, truly melancholic and heart-melting. Elvis Presley would have loved it!
Behind such musical goodness, we find American musician and songwriter Pat Berlinquette; boasting a wealth of experience in rock outfits for the past two decades, the talented creative seems to have now found a more eclectic and nuanced formula, built on a genre-bending approach mixing anything from Americana to pop and rock stylings. What truly supercharges the record, eventually, is Berlinquette’s phenomenal vocal tone, extremely evocative and meaningful.
Speaking about the inspiration behind ‘Old New York’, Pat explains: “When my mom got sick in 2021, I wrote sixty-something songs—it was her last gift to me. The day she died, the muse left. The songs could have sat on my phone forever. Instead…Kenny Siegal (Langhorne Slim) built a band around me. He narrowed the songs down to twelve, and we recorded them. I’ve had a wonderful creative relationship with Kenny since. His studio, Old Soul, is like my second home. Old New York was recorded there.”
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