Tom Ovans makes a welcome return to the recording fray in March, 2014 by way of a DOUBLE CD release, entitled Last Day On Earth (FW 038).

Tom has taken his music all the way back to its basic components here, cutting the album on an old TEAC 4-track tape recorder. The results are frequently remarkable - Tom looks through his song notes, fragments and unsentimental reflections collected over the last forty years to produce a collection of the most vivid and nuanced songs of his career. Few albums released in 2014 will match the scope and range of what Ovans has achieved here; earlier triumphs such as Nuclear Sky or Honest Abe And The Assassins showcased a writer possessed of a teak-tough, impassioned, two-fisted style, who writes with a rare economy and an ear for simple but hugely compulsive melodies.

Last Day On Earth offers up yet more proof that Ovans occupies a niche of his own in contemporary North American music. It offers little in the way of easy options or glib summations, but it’s honest, heartfelt and truthful. And utterly essential.

"a pessimistic prophet whose music is mostly stark, whose lyrics are fragmentary and poetic… the rough-hewn ballads carry a bleak beauty" Paul Du Noyer The Word