John Brooks – No Mean City

This guy offered to buy me a beer if I’d meet him to talk about his music. I didn’t take him up on it (though it would have been easy since he lives down the street from me) due to my rigorous code of journalistic ethics. I can’t be bought! Though I can be seduced and that’s exactly what happened with this quiet set of reflective tunes about assorted urban ailments. (Terence Dick)

CD, Exile Music, 99A Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto, ON, M6R 2K9, www.johnbrooks.ca