Ear Candy
Instead of a Beam!, Part II, he has delivered an artistic progression. Truly stunning!
Ken Worthing (Add Some Music)
Thru A Glass Brightly is a far more cohesive, deeper and melodic work than his first solo album.
Stanton Swihart (All Music Guide)
Glorious, serpentine melodies and slowly blooming harmonies billow from the gauzy depths of Thru A Glass Brightly.
Ronnie Dannelley (Ear Candy)
Instead of Beam! Part II, Peter has delivered an artistic progression. Truly stunning!
Record Collector, January 2002
Beach Boys fans will love it, as will anyone who still appreciates crafted melodies and harmonies. (Kingsley Abbott)
John Lane (Crawdaddy)
Peter Lacey represents a small vanguard of emerging musicians who can be considered actual craftsmen. This is a work full of charms.
Uncut, March 2002
Peter Lacey's second album once again proves him to be a singer-songwriter of great scope and vision. (Paul Johnson)
Uncut
A seductive and heart-warming album.
Record Collector
Beach Boys fans will love it, as will anyone who still appreciates crafted melodies and harmonies.
The Power of Pop
There is remarkable consistency in the repertoire that will amaze and please. One for the heart.
Album Description
This is the greatly anticipated follow up to Beam!, which proved to be a huge success for Peter in 2000. Once again Peter has chosen to record the album in his 'loft' studio at his home in West Sussex. Thru A Glass Brightly continues on from where Beam! left off and contains twelve beautifully crafted new songs. Peter's music is often compared to The Beach Boys because of his wonderful harmonies and arrangements, and to Paul McCartney's early work, with it's strength of melody and warm 'homemade' production values. However, this album will no doubt establish Peter as a uniquely talented artist in his own right.
From the Artist
Peter Lacey emerged at the end of the millennium from the shadows of years of session work on the British scene with a sound so melodically rich and sophisticated that he earned inevitable comparisons to legends from the golden era of pop music, Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach in particular. Although such comparisons are never fair and often misleading, Lacey certainly earned the praise and distinction bestowed upon his music.
