PETER PERRETT
HUMANWORLD
DOMINO RECORDS
★★★
We waited 20 years for Only One Peter Perrett’s last album, but, perhaps invigorated by its positive response, he returns two years on, opening with I Want Your Dreams’repressed tension, while Once Is Enough sees him drawling over chugging guitars about “a friend who’s crazy as fuck”. Hints of his disciples The Libertines abound, but much of Humanworld sounds appealingly like a cheerful conference between The Go-Betweens and The Velvet Underground – and not just for his judicious use of violin on The Power Is In You.