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2022 press on red vinyl with insert. Limited 200 copies

Ty Tabor’s highly personal third solo effort, Safety, showcases the King’s X guitarist’s knack for writing beautifully plangent pop songs, even while dealing with difficult lyrical subject matter (in this case, his divorce). It was written over a three-year period and the ten songs chronicle his journey through the end of this busted marriage. While the material from King’s X is usually harder and more progressive, Ty’s solo music is full of easily palatable pop-rock with catchy melodies and copious amounts of Beatle-derived vocal harmonies. Safety features, fittingly, the more downbeat and melancholy side of Tabor’s songwriting style (exemplified by the King’s X tunes Life Going By and Goldilox); gorgeous tracks like the swirling Room For Me and the driving but bittersweet Tulip (Your Eyes) are carried along more by Tabor’s clear yet vulnerable singing style and well-constructed melodies than by his guitar. Still, Tabor’s slashing, visceral six-string tone and impeccable soloing crop up periodically to punctuate the clearly painful emotional content of the songs. One would be hard pressed not to find songs which speak to the wounded soul.

Track list:
1. Tulip (Your Eyes)
2. Better To Be On Hold
3. Missing Love
4. Funeral
5. Room For Me
6. Safety
7. True Love
8. Now I Am
9. Anger
10. I Dont Mind