Trevor Sensor is the type of artist that, Spotify algorithm failing, you might discover in a fever dream, conjured up in a dark music club among theatre eccentrics. There’s something not quite belonging to the digital age in his sound, even if thematically he navigates the emotional landscape of the modern world. His music evokes artists such as Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Elliot Smith… The list is endless. But, paradoxically, this profusion of association comes about precisely because Sensor is a true original, and as such is so full of ideas that he breathes new life into classic sounds. In his latest album A Few Tears of Eros roots music and myriad popular genres are passed through a blender, to stimulating results further enriched by a cultural baggage…
