The Match – A New Light LP (individual songs are linked)
Suddenly I feel like I’m 6. A New Light by The Match is streamable via YouTube and Spotify. (I may have to track down the CD in case it one day isn’t.)
I’ve tried to hunt this album down for years. I couldn’t find anything about them going back decades. I wondered if I imagined them. But these songs were down on my gray matter somewhere. I remember them.
Listening to this album reminds me of old TV themes, ’60s movies set in Europe and of course Mom and Dad. They used to play this all the time. At home and in the car (on a homemade cassette – this was early ’70s).
This is soft rock, very of its time (1969), with lush music and beautiful harmonies.
They remind me of The Association and The Carpenters – especially “Saturday Night,” the one hit where Richard sang lead.
A New Light is The Match’s only album, and there isn’t much information about the members. I’m not the only one who has had trouble finding out about the group.
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