Under the name of Mr. Richards and his Drum Orchestra, Paul released his debut, instrumental, percussion-dominated album earlier this year. Titled The Argument, it’s a concept album about…well, an argument, told through multiple (sometimes up to 40) percussion parts. Paul released it, but, as it’s his first solo ‘thing’, he didn’t tell anyone about it at first.
Anyway, a track from the release, Cogs, was played on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire last night. An industry-type has since hailed it as being ‘the album of the year’. It’s not, but as far as concept drum albums go, it’s not bad. You can listen to the whole album here.