def.fo (aka Tom Powell) Interview: Debut Album ‘Eternity’ and Liverpool Roots

def.fo’s debut album, Eternity, is glued to Del Pike’s turntable. Del tracks down Tom Powell to find out how this banging new album was created and how it fits into Liverpool’s musical legacy. Once in a while, an album comes along where every track is a banger. No matter how hard you try, you can’t help but flip it over again as soon as it finishes. Eternity, the debut long player by def.fo (aka Tom Powell), is such a record. Released at the end of last year, this is an album that, whilst fresh and original, also feels like a retrospective of some of the best Liverpool music of the past 30-odd years. Unsurprising, as the record is produced by Tom’s Dad, Steve Powell. The elder Powell has worked as either producer or guitarist (or both) with the great and good of the Scouse music scene. The...

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