The Byson Family

Hope And Pray

At the beginning of this year it was announced that Phil Campbell had left beloved Brit rockers The Temperance Movement. After that everything seemed to go pretty quiet on them. Now the Scottish singer has returned with a new band and a new single that sounds… well, not wholly unlike The Temperance Movement (the influence of Little Feat and The Band runs through both groups), albeit with its feet planted more solidly in the American West Coast than in 70s Britannia. Clearly this is not a bad thing. Lifted by flavours of latterday California-dreamin’ hippies like GospelbeacH and Aussies Datura4, it’s the sort of 21st-century classic rock we’d gladly listen to a lot more of.