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Jun 27, 2017Perrett’s mordant wit and laconic vocal delivery are happily intact and his current band (which includes sons Jamie and Peter Jr) sympathetically top and tail these 10 memorably idiosyncratic odes to love and despair. Highlights are heady and plentiful.
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Q MagazineJul 6, 2017This is guitar music at its most acerbic and romantic. [Aug 2017, p.110]
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Jun 29, 2017How the West Was Won is a very welcome return.
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Jun 29, 2017[The opening track] sets a high standard that the rest of How the West Was Won matches and occasionally betters. The songwriting is polished and his band--essentially a repurposed version of his sons’ outfit Strangefruit--is tight, without ever losing a sense of louche character.
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Jun 28, 2017How The West Was Won stands on its own as a clever, mature and scathingly witty record with memorable melodies and choruses. It also marks the return of a true rock ’n’ roll anti-hero.
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Jun 28, 2017How the West was Won is not only a great album, it's also the inspiring, and inspired, story of how Perrett won his own life back.
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MojoJun 27, 2017A consummately composed lesson in narrative songcraft, which tugs on the heartstrings as it sails into the sunset with Take Me Home. [Aug 2017, p.86]
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Jun 27, 2017Perrett is back, in decent shape, and fully engaged with the world. [Aug 2017, p.18]
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Jun 28, 2017With How The West Was Won, Perrett proves that he’s got plenty of rock and roll left to make, a lot of courage left to make it.
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Jul 12, 2017This album, then, is a gleeful surprise, and though it is debatable whether it would make the same sense for a listener coming to Perrett cold, for those who already know what to look for it is as gently persuasive as it is shyly moving.
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Jun 27, 2017hile its takes on classic swing, psych country and postpunk pop are understandably fragile and lacking wallop--an inevitable consequence of age and getting your kids in your backing band--How The West Was Won is shot through with a wonderfully wry reinvigoration.
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Jun 28, 2017Former Only Ones frontman Peter Perrett sounds as languidly wasted as ever on How The West Was Won, though thankfully it’s the kind of wasted that demands the devotion of his sons, both involved in this solo debut, and sparks insights and locutions that enable him to make sense of his life.