Honey West Returns To NYC With New Album
By: Stephi Wild Jan. 16, 2018
Following year-end Top Album list nods by Goldmine and WFUV's Darren DeVivo, Honey West, the NYC guitar rock outfit featuring Foreigner/King Crimson co-founder Ian McDonald, emerges for its first gig of the new year amid increasing airplay for its latest single, "Bad Old World," Thursday, Jan. 25 at The Cutting Room, 44 E. 32nd St., New York City.
"Bad Old World" is the second single and driving title track from the band's acclaimed debut album, BAD OLD WORLD (Readout Records). The upcoming "Bad Old World" music video, to be directed by Follette Films (Patty Smythe, John Doe of X), is due in February. It follows the groundbreaking lyric video for the first single "Dementia," which premiered exclusively in Billboard.
Goldmine proclaimed BAD OLD WORLD "one of my favorite albums of 2017."
The fiery new single, crafted by McDonald and his "odd couple" songwriting partner, Shakespearean thespian Ted Zurkowski of The Actors Studio, is indicative of an album, says The Vinyl District, whose songs "flow with spunk and real-world-rebellion. ... The overall exuberance that comes through encourages a resounding 'yes.'" Fireworks Magazine (UK) calls BAD OLD WORLD "a pure joy" and The Vinyl District proclaimed: "Bad Old World's tracks flow with spunk and real-world-rebellion. ... The overall exuberance that comes through encourages a resounding 'yes.'" Short & Sweet (NY/LA) deemed it "truly perfect." "Bad Old World," and the album itself, are gaining traction at commercial and Non-Comm Triple A stations.
As a British rock titan who has figured prominently on four of the biggest-selling albums of the 10-year period from 1969 through 1979, encompassing two completely different rock genres, McDonald proudly tells interviewers BAD OLD WORLD, the album, is "some of the best work I've ever done." Indeed, noted Billboard, "It merits some attention when Ian McDonald gets excited about something. BAD OLD WORLD has earned additional notice from Parade.com, Huffington Post, Modern Drummer, M Music & Musicians, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Digital First Media, Premiere Radio Networks, and Fireworks Magazine (UK), among many others
Bad Old World is filled with memorable melodies and clever and sophisticated lyrics served on a bed of guitar-driven rock 'n' roll played by top-shelf musicians, including guest appearances by drummer Steve Holley, whose credits include Paul McCartney & Wings and Graham Maby (Joe Jackson, They Might Be Giants) on bass. While it's a modern sound stamped by McDonald's world-class musicianship and production, it also bears an instant familiarity, thanks to a sonic blueprint recalling such Brit-rock greats as The Move, Mott the Hoople, the Kinks and Rockpile.
Bad Old World is available for download at all major online destinations, also accessible through the band's all-new official website, HoneyWestMusic.com.
Honey West ON THE WEB:
www.facebook.com/honeywestmusic
Videos