David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels: Paint The Town EP

David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels
Paint The Town EP
Self-Released [2011]









Fire Note Says: David Newton returns to the music scene with his solid and melodic bursting Paint The Town EP!

Album Review:
If you really know your music than I expect that you might already know David Newton as the guitarist in the Wolverhampton, England band The Mighty Lemon Drops. Their heyday was in the late eighties, early nineties before they broke up as David then played briefly with The Blue Aeroplanes.

Catching up, Newton has been located in Los Angeles since 1995 and converted his garage into a recording studio where he has produced and engineered countless records that include The Little Ones, The Henry Clay People and The Soft Pack to just name a few.

Paint The Town is actually Newton's first solo work and to no surprise was self-produced, performed and recorded in California over the last year. What I like about the Paint The Town EP is that David embraces the sound he knows well and cranks out 5 tracks of modern melodic pop that build on the post-punk he did so well with The Mighty Lemon Drops.

All five songs are big and bursting with memorable choruses that instantly engage the listener and will have you singing along with ease. Paint The Town is a solid 15 minutes of everything going right for David Newton and showcases his veteran status that is entrenched with the current musical scene. Newton is planning a full length album here in 2012 and based on the strength of this outing - we can't wait to hear it!

Key Tracks: "Paint The Town", "Bittersweet", "My First Band"

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John P. Strohm
Mike Viola
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-Reviewed by Christopher Anthony