BRAVE STAR, by Tom Lark
Auckland-based Tom Lark has as many personae as names: he releases cruisy dance-floor pop as Shannon Matthew Vanya, but he’s also Shannon Fowler when producing and collaborating with Merk, Randa, Georgia Lines, Christchurch psychedelic drifters Fuzzy Robes and others.
But for this long overdue debut album as Tom, the country-flavoured and about the mayfly lifespan of former celebrities who’ve had “the peek round behind the curtain … maybe you are a star but not the one you thought you were”.
