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Fat pop paul weller4/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It also features the ballad “Still Glides The Stream,” co-written with Steve Cradock “Moving Canvas”(a tribute to Iggy Pop), and ”dramatic, immediate pop symphonies” such as “Failed” and “True,”. No matter what situation you are in, and we’re in one now, music doesn’t let you down, does it?”įat Pop (Volume 1) features the singles “Cosmic Fringes”, “Shades Of Blue”. In a previous press statement, Weller said of the record: “It’s a celebration of music and what it’s given us all. So, yes, quite a lot of thought and care put into this album and all the parts.”įat Pop (Volume 1) arrives hot on the heels of Weller’s widely-acclaimed UK chart-topping LP, On Sunset which was released last July. Plus, I was doing a track at a time - not necessarily finishing them entirely, but nevertheless focusing my concentration on one song - whereas normally, when we have done sessions, we’re kind of working on half a dozen at a time. But pretty soon I realized it also allowed me to take my time a bit, and come back to the songs every few weeks. I thought I’d try and get out as much music as I possibly could. “At first it was really just to keep my mind focused on something. “Just the fact that I didn’t have anything else on really helped,” Weller said in an interview with Inside Hook. In fact, if this were the late-’60s, ’70s, or even the ’80s, one could imagine any of Fat Pop’s 12 tracks topping the charts.įor someone as prolific as Weller, the fact that he had a substantial chunk of time off the road really for the first time in his adult life was the unlikely key to Fat Pop coming together so quickly. Never has the Modfather sounded quite so at ease.”įat Pop sprang from ideas Weller held onto during previous recording sessions - “not because they weren’t any good but because they didn’t quite fit the mood of what we were working on at the time,” he says - and snippets on his phone that then he circulated to his band, who added their parts virtually before coming together for finishing-touch sessions last summer, it’s already been noted that it’s an album of would-be singles. It’s already attracting widespread acclaim, with the NME review declaring, “The album is a delight: a generous collection of expertly crafted pop tracks, delivered with both the finesse of an artist of five decades’ experience and the lightness of touch that only comes when you’re having a blast. ![]() ‘In Better Time’ offers a pensive, forceful vocal, while closer ‘Still Glides The Stream’ is an ambitious undertaking, fusing a lyric about the passing of time and the pleasures of the everyday with sloping, Lennon-esque piano chords and a truly divine arrangement that contains shades of Robert Kirby’s work with Nick Drake.Paul Weller’s new album, Fat Pop (Volume 1), is out now on Polydor Records. ‘Moving Canvas’ may dip into JJ Cale style blues rock, but it’s the Kinks chords on ‘Cobweb Connections’ which linger in the memory. As pleasing as the faint reggae influences on ‘The Pleasure’ are, you’re left yearning to hear the songwriter cut loose. Indeed, ‘Fat Pops (Volume 1)’ is often at its best when Paul Weller returns to those funk and soul roots. That’s not to say that ‘Fat Pops (Volume 1)’ departs from the familiar – the work of New Orleans great Aaron Neville haunts ‘Testify’ while the title track has a definite Curtis Mayfield feel to it. A slice of off kilter disco-infused songwriting, ‘Cosmic Tinges’ retains the electronics that dappled last year’s ‘On Sunset’ while steering them in a fresh direction. ![]() Pleasingly, the record opens with perhaps its most unexpected moment. Unlike the thematic shifts that have contoured his recent work, there’s no real over-arching structure here – he skips from idea to idea, giving the set more the feel of a range of sonic experiments, rather than a finessed album. In lieu of touring, Paul Weller simply locked himself away in the studio, using that pent up energy to create new music. Ostensibly the follow up to last year’s number one album ‘On Sunset’, ‘Fat Pop (Volume 1)’ was constructed during lockdown. ![]()
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