Joel Plaskett & Peter Elkas

"Poor Young Things"

BY Vish KhannaPublished May 27, 2009

All set to begin recording his next album with Ian McGettigan, romantic Toronto soul man Peter Elkas has just released a sweet little harbinger of great things to come with "Poor Young Things."

A songwriting collab with his Emergency band leader Joel Plaskett, "Poor Young Things" is the A-side for one of the first seven-inch singles out on Plaskett's New Scotland Records (the B-side "Repeat Offender" is a cool, Keith Richards-style jam worth checking out too). Elkas showed up at Plaskett's Scotland Yard home studio with a fragment of the song-in-progress and the brothers-from-other-mothers hashed out a cool, infectious tune that speaks to classic ideals of rock 'n' roll camaraderie. Glory days indeed!

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