Singer-songwriter P.J. O'Connor paid his dues, from busking around Ireland to touring with alt-bands and artists like The Bogmen and Gordan Gano of the Violent Femmes. The journey led him to his solo debut, Television’s Golden Age, out November 12th, a beautiful collection of heartfelt, catchy songs, combining the skills learned from both endeavors. There's the relentless strum of a one-man band trying to grab people's attention as they walk past the performer, and the emotional exposure alt-rock didn't invent, but certainly captured.
"Indecisive Moon," the album's first single, features the Long Island native wandering through a quarantining New York City this past spring, the images juxtaposing empty streets against crowded, making you wonder which version of New York City is lonelier. The chorus is a mantra, “May the lights of New York City shine on me wherever I go.” While shots of someone performing in the subway would have been visual white noise earlier this year, now it feels scary and triumphant. But it also perfectly captures O'Connor's vibe as a wandering troubadour only interested in bringing music where it needs to go.
“These recordings represent a culmination of a career’s worth of experience, told within the backdrop of my rapidly-changing home, Greenwich Village,” O’Connor says of Television’s Golden Age in an official statement. “I’m proud of the honesty of these songs. I had only to stay true to myself for this record to come to life.”
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