Cobweb Connections is another highlight, a beefed-up acoustic anthem, while Moving Campus is a bluesy tribute to Iggy Pop. Shades Of Blue is perhaps the best example, a soulful, catchy collaboration with his daughter Leah, while True is an impressively fiery duet with Lia Metcalfe of The Mysterines, all call and response vocals and stomping beats.
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The title track continues this electronic experimentation, with its synth line and snaking melody bringing to mind Gorillaz, especially with Weller’s raspy, Damon Albarn-like, delivery.Įlsewhere, the more classic songwriter side of Weller is on full display. It’s still a fine reminder that Weller can knock off a dozen expertly crafted songs at a moment’s notice.Ĭosmic Fringes is synth-heavy with a strutting, confident air to it (“I don’t believe my luck when I see him in the mirror” runs one line), and Weller sounds uncannily like Ian Dury at points. There’s a slightly more experimental edge to many of the tracks, and stylistically it bounces about all over the place. The result, Fat Pop (Volume 1), is more of a companion piece to On Sunset than a fully fledged follow-up.
He then set about swapping files with his band remotely, and then headed back into the studio to finish the album once lockdown had eased slightly last summer. Obviously, global circumstances dictated that album couldn’t be performed live, so Weller instead revisited some half-finished ideas he’d recorded on his phone. Last July, he released On Sunset, his fourth record in about five years, which became one of the most well-received albums of his career. It could be argued that Paul Weller was experiencing one of his most prolific phases before Covid-19, but the global pandemic and subsequent lockdown certainly seems to have accelerated that purple patch.
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