Tom Gallo is the host of Look at My Records on Radio Free Brooklyn.

Radio Free Brooklyn and Bushwick Daily are proud to announce a new weekly local-music column that will focus on artists that call Bushwick home. Each week, a Radio Free Brooklyn personality will pen a record or performance review of a different Bushwick based artist, with a curated selection of the best upcoming local gigs in the neighborhood for the following weekend.

Stephen Perry, the principal songwriter and frontman of The Planes, finished 2018 by sharing the project’s latest full-length album, Sleep Like A Noble. A mostly self-recorded and produced effort, the songs on Sleep Like A Noble sonically remain fairly constant throughout, as Perry excels at crafting precise sweet sounding guitar pop songs with wistful melodies. Like his previous works, Perry delivers warm, jangly goodness that thematically ranges from sad love songs to poignant political commentary. To coincide with the release, Perry also provides a song by song breakdown of the entire record via the group’s Facebook page, giving his listeners a first-hand account of the overarching lyrical themes and recording process, describing this split in detail.