Michael Carpenter: Songs of Other People #6 (2020)

Australian musician Michael Carpenter is one of those perennial power pop artists who's been plugging away for years but not getting much attention outside of the diehard power pop community. Which is a shame, as he's a fine craftsman of catchy tunes, easily enjoyed by anyone with a ken for Matthew Sweet or Jason Falkner or the Fountains of Wayne. But besides a litany of great originals, he's a prolific purveyor of cover songs, both on myriad tribute albums and on his home-brewed series of album...