When you’ve been in the industry long enough, you make lots of friends and sit on lots of ideas for long stretches of time, and then sometimes, you come up with a solo effort as wonderful as Martin Schofield’s I’m With the Singer. You may be very familiar with Schofield, thanks to his wonderful tenure as guitarist of the South African alternative rock mainstay WONDERboom, now over 25 years into a glorious recording career. But it has taken him this long to properly issue a solo debut, a collaborative effort between him and many of his friends that really reinvented his already highly impressive career as a musician. Recorded at his home studio, with some further assistance from producer Matthew Fink at Atomic Studios in Johannesburg, the album features Schofield working with some exemplary...