Love Is
BMG
Guitarist’s first album in nine years shimmers and glows.
Given that the outside world appears to be burning to the ground, there’s sharp relief to be found in the appeasing tones of Steve Howe’s latest album. It’s half instrumental, half recorded with Yes vocalist Jon Davison, and when Howe steps up to the mic himself Davison sings harmony lines that add much needed lustre to Howe’s occasionally dusty vocal. Which is not to decry Love Is. As a singer, Howe might be a brilliant guitarist, and as a guitarist he is almost without parallel.