And now for something completely different: Another of my personal musical heroes is Paddy McAloon, the singer and songwriter of the English pop group Prefab Sprout. They are not well known in the U.S., which is a pity, but I first heard them back in the 1980s when I was living in Ireland. I sort of left them behind — didn’t think their kind of music was really my thing. I rediscovered them for myself about nine months ago, and found that I now could appreciate many elements and levels of McAloon’s music that I just wasn’t ready to get all those years ago. It was then a wild ride catching up on the albums I didn’t have, and frankly having my mind blown at every turn. It seemed I’d picked a good time to get back into the Sprouts, as it was reported that a new CD was going to be released this fall. The “new” album actually turned out to have quite a story behind it, which emerged bit by bit this summer. Some of that story is told by me in an article at First Things today, entitled Let There Be Music.

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The new album, which I’d heartily recommend to lovers of great pop music and which I plan on writing about in a different way shortly, is called (that’s right): Let’s Change the World With Music.

Paddy back then (with backing singer Wendy Smith):

Paddy now (with audio of one of the newly released tracks, Let There Be Music):

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