Following on from Steve’s recent rootsy album Gone, Long Gone comes an atmospheric, instrumental album featuring Steve mainly playing pedal steel guitar on a suite of songs. The core band is Steve along with Jeremy Holmes holding down the bass duties, Chris Gestrin on all manner of keyboards including mellotron along with noted drummer Jay Bellerose. It sounds incredibly warm due to the vintage tube amps. It’s very much the kind of thing that Daniel Lanois has been aiming at away at over the last twenty years or so. It’s one of the best things I’ve heard this year and it’s rarely been off the deck since receiving it, admittedly I’m a bit of a sucker for ambient steel playing and Steve is one of the best. It certainly has a filmic quality to it, highly recommended for all you cosmic cowboy’s out there, just one listen to the opening song Cosy Corner and I was hooked. It gets the balance of moods just right, drifty languorous tunes for a psychedelic summer’s afternoon.