Don Tmatter
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Any good?
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Ian Brown's new one
- Thread starter Don Tmatter
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justin72
Member
Got it yesterday - Mr Brown is superb yet again!
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
In a word - YES.
Apologies to my mates who I posted a similar review to today.
The album picks up where Solarized and the World is Yours left off. It starts with the obligatory trumpets and a great anthem in Stellarised. It carries on with the social conscience song that he has on every album and then goes from strength to strength. I forget which track it is but there is even a more melodic and ethereal tune that could have come from the Stone Roses first album.
There's even a cover version - a reworking of Zager and Zagers "In the Year 2525" and this time Ian Brown takes it to a crecendo that you could almost imagine coming from an Ennio Morricone spaghetti western soundtrack. It's absolutely fantastic. Sweet fantastic perhaps?!!
All in all I'd say that it's a great album and up there with the best of his. Lots of artists this year have had near misses with new albums but not this. It really hits the spot. Well worth reading the lyrics too as you listen to it and you realise what a great and sensitive songwriter he is. He doesn't need clever wordplay either. Just beautifully simple words.
Somehting about his albums that make me wax lyrical (literally) and I find them very haunting. This is no exception. 8/10 from me and definitely one of the best homegrown albums of the year. There's a lot of really good stuff out there at the moment. Can't wait to see him live.
Apologies to my mates who I posted a similar review to today.
The album picks up where Solarized and the World is Yours left off. It starts with the obligatory trumpets and a great anthem in Stellarised. It carries on with the social conscience song that he has on every album and then goes from strength to strength. I forget which track it is but there is even a more melodic and ethereal tune that could have come from the Stone Roses first album.
There's even a cover version - a reworking of Zager and Zagers "In the Year 2525" and this time Ian Brown takes it to a crecendo that you could almost imagine coming from an Ennio Morricone spaghetti western soundtrack. It's absolutely fantastic. Sweet fantastic perhaps?!!
All in all I'd say that it's a great album and up there with the best of his. Lots of artists this year have had near misses with new albums but not this. It really hits the spot. Well worth reading the lyrics too as you listen to it and you realise what a great and sensitive songwriter he is. He doesn't need clever wordplay either. Just beautifully simple words.
Somehting about his albums that make me wax lyrical (literally) and I find them very haunting. This is no exception. 8/10 from me and definitely one of the best homegrown albums of the year. There's a lot of really good stuff out there at the moment. Can't wait to see him live.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Agreed! CSider talks a lot of sense.
Arthur
Well-known member
Is going to risk a bit of a flaming here but I've listened to it a couple of times and it's still not grown on me. Stellify is the standout track and no wonder it's the first single. The swipe at Squire is not subtle in the slightest and you can't help but wonder what his motivation for said track so long after the Roses? I can only assume that it is a message to everyone that the Roses will never reform in their original form as long as he has a hole in his arse.
Seeing him in Brixton and Manchester in December and at the moment I'm hoping it's a wide mix of stuff.
All that said I do agree with Buzzer and csider regardless of what I think of this album. The man is a god and has produced some of the greatest records in the last 20 years.
Seeing him in Brixton and Manchester in December and at the moment I'm hoping it's a wide mix of stuff.
All that said I do agree with Buzzer and csider regardless of what I think of this album. The man is a god and has produced some of the greatest records in the last 20 years.
The Goon
Gully's Boy
Good album!
Brown is superb, but his stupid song "Illegal Attacks" with Skinhead O'Connor almost ruined my relationship with his music...
"So what the fook is this UK, doing with this US of A, in Iraq and Iran and in Afghanistan...?"
Erm, did I miss the invasion of Iran? I should have noticed something since I've spent the best part of the last six years either side of the fooking place.
No more like that and we'll all be baggy-tastic again Mr Brown, and keep away from that Fenian Fruitbat and we'll be back on course. And I will download your new album for nowt, I ain't fooking buying it, I'm too scally for that chuck.
"So what the fook is this UK, doing with this US of A, in Iraq and Iran and in Afghanistan...?"
Erm, did I miss the invasion of Iran? I should have noticed something since I've spent the best part of the last six years either side of the fooking place.
No more like that and we'll all be baggy-tastic again Mr Brown, and keep away from that Fenian Fruitbat and we'll be back on course. And I will download your new album for nowt, I ain't fooking buying it, I'm too scally for that chuck.
footychick
Nicola
Yes it's good x
Tubby Mondays
Well-known member
Not as good as Solorized or The World Is Yours. And thats about as much as Ive got say on the matter. Although will no doubt enjoy the forthcoming tour regardless.
Arthur
Well-known member
That's because of the great company you'll be keeping!!
Get my mail this morning?
Tubby Mondays
Well-known member
That's because of the great company you'll be keeping!!
Get my mail this morning?
Yeah I replied (in the negative) but apparently we have problems.
footychick
Nicola
It's better than his last one.
nevergoagain
Well-known member
Listened to this last night, fantastic cover, absolutely spot on.
alan partridge
Active member
tis good