“Peter Perrett continues his immortal story with The Cleansing”
“That there are nods to his own mortality throughout this third album in Peter Perrett’s late-career renaissance isn’t a massive surprise. After three sublime albums as frontman with the Only Ones between 1978 and 1980, he spent much of the following three and a half decades mired in addiction, only breaking cover in 2017 with How the West Was Won. And so there are songs here called I Wanna Go With”