Cliff Hillis - The Song Machine Companion

One of my favorite albums this year is a few tracks short.  The Song Machine EP by Cliff Hillis has been playing in my house, in my car and and in my head for the last few months.   It's a great piece with catchy tracks that flow into one another, each one building on the last. A great one by Cliff, one of the most consistent talents in Power Pop.  

I've included a "recipe" to stretch Cliff's latest EP into a proper LP by adding some demo and commercial tracks he published on his SoundCloud page. 

The recipe works this way. Please go out and purchase Cliff's Song Machine EP.  Then support Andrew Curry's excellent tribute project "Here Comes The Reign Again" by purchasing Cliff's cover of the Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't It Be Good", surely a highlight of that great compilation. (Hell, you really can't miss by getting all the tracks!) Finally at the end, add the new tracks in this compilation.   These are the tracks that Cliff has published since my last demo compilation and as usual they are of consistently great quality.

Song Machine EP

1 Dashboard

2 Turn on a Dime

3 Just One More

4 Hang on to the Moment

5 Tonight

6 Could You Be the Enemy

7 Goodnight Sunlight

Here Comes The Reign Again 

8 Wouldn't It Be Good

Song Machine Companion

9 Mary Mary

10 Leave it All Behind

11 Never in a Million Years

12 Fast Ships and Supernovas

13 Turn Up the Fun

14 Evil Knevel

15 Christmas Wish

16 Honey Badger Christmas

17 Stain Off

18 Keep the Blue Skies (Acoustic Live)