​Michael McDermott (from the album Lighthouse on the Shore / East Jesus

​Michael McDermott (from the album Lighthouse on the Shore / East Jesus

​Michael McDermott (from the album Lighthouse on the Shore / East Jesus available on Pauper Sky Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
With a piano as a guide, Micheal McDermott opens his recent double-disc release, Lighthouse on the Shore / East Jesus, with a happy/sad story in “Bradbury Daydream”. Disc one is a beautifully flowing keyboard reverie as Micheal McDermott cries out a love letter in “Goddamn Lovely” and becomes a barroom piano man singing a song for a patron in “Hey La Hey 23”. Scratchy chords and strings introduce Maggie in “Nothing Changes” while an echoey train-track beat partners with a Soul shout calling out “Gonna Rise Up” and the sound of bells offers peace for the questions in “I Am Not My Father”. Both discs include a title track, with “Lighthouse on the Shore” a gently drifting love song.
For its title track, East Jesus views the past, present, and future against aggressive acoustic guitar strums that begin the sonic suite that supports the questions in the tale with diverse sounds and styles. The beat of an after-dark city rumbles underneath “Berlin in Night” as Michael McDermott follows a chorus of chanting voices into the Rock’n’Roll rhythms of “Quicksand”, falling into the Blues Rock backbeat-driven storyline for “Lost Paradise”. If the two discs were siblings, it is safe to say the Lighthouse on the Shore is the artistic child while East Jesus bites back. A Rock’n’Roll groove hits the road for “Behind the Eight” as Michael McDermott makes a confession in “The Circus” and wraps a jangle of notes and a hearty hammer-beat around “Charlie Brown” while East Jesus exits pondering “Whose Life Am I Living?” against a rhythmic patter. (by Danny McCloskey) 
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