![]() Mayfly - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 Rockets - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 Still Glides The Stream - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 Testify - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 More - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 Village - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 Moving Canvas - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020įailed - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 Old Father Tyme - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 On Sunset - Live From Mid-Sömmer Musik, London / 2020 Hannah Peel is back in the fray adding her classic string scores to Cobweb Connections and Still Glides The Stream. ![]() As ever, Fat Pop, sees a number of guests contributing including Lia Metcalfe, the young Liverpudlian singer with The Mysterines who combines her tremendous vocal as well as a song writing credit to True.Īndy Fairweather Low adds his distinctive vocals to superfly strutting Testify and Paul’s daughter Leah co-wrote and features on the classic 3 minute pop kitchen sink drama Shades Of Blue which will be the first single taken from the album. There’s the synth-heavy, future-wave strut of Cosmic Fringes, the stately balladeering of Still Glides The Stream (co-written with Steve Cradock), the chunky percussive groove of Moving Canvas (a tribute to Iggy Pop no less), and the kind of dramatic immediate pop symphonies on Failed, True and Shades of Blue with which Paul Weller has hooked in generation after generation of devotee. The band reconvened at Weller’s Black Barn studio in Surrey when restrictions were lifted to finish the work with the shape of the album becoming clear to all.įat Pop (Volume 1) – Paul adding the “Volume 1” to keep options open for a second volume in the future - is a diverse selection of sounds. Despite it being strange not being together, it kept the wheels rolling and sanity prevailing. With many ideas for new songs stored on his phone, Paul started to record them on his own with just vocals, piano and guitar which he’d send to his core band members (drummer Ben Gordelier, Steve Cradock on guitar and bassist Andy Crofts) to add their parts. It’s an absolute scorcher.ĭuring spring last year, after his tour dates were postponed, Paul Weller needed something else to focus on. ![]() It’s not hyperbole to state that this new album, titled Fat Pop (Volume 1), is among his most compelling collections. On May 14th, Paul Weller releases his 16 th solo album since his self-titled debut in 1992, which comes in just under twelve months following June 2020’s magnificent, chart-topping On Sunset. Paul Weller will not let us down when we need him most. And for many there is further significant comfort to be drawn from the knowledge that Paul Weller is in the midst of an unbelievably prolific purple patch. ![]() But everyone knows that art provides succour, that music is the most reliable balm. We may be cursed to be in the midst a global pandemic, buffeted by all of its stresses and pain. ![]()
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