_{Ted Poley is of course best known as the frontman for Danger Danger, but just after re-joining the band in 2004 he released a couple of solo albums. Almost a decade later he has just released his third solo album. Entitled “Beyond The Fade”, it was released by Frontiers Music on 13th May. Poley has worked with multi-talented and rather industrious producer / songwriter / musician Alessandro Del Vecchio and song-writing brothers Tom and James Martin from Vega to deliver a very strong album that should appeal to many people. I played the track “Higher” on the NI Rocks A-Z Show on 3rd May.}

_{Del Vecchio not only produced the record; he also provides drums, keyboards and backing vocals, with Mario Percudani on guitars and Anna Portalupi on bass. Lead vocals are of course provided by Ted Poley, although he is joined by Norwegian singer Issa on the track “The Perfect Crime”. Poley actually came to Europe to work with Del Vecchio on recording the album rather than doing everything remotely.}

_{There are 11 tracks on the album and it will certainly appeal to anyone who likes that classic, melodic hard rock genre. No doubt everyone would pick their own favourites based on their own individual tastes, and it is very hard to narrow it down, but I’ll go with “Let’s Start Something”, “The Perfect Crime”, “Higher”, “Where I Lost You” and “We Are Young”.}

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