![]() Satellite Kid features the talents of The Strypes’ Josh McClorey on guitar – reprising a guest role he also assumed on Saturns Pattern – while the aforementioned One Tear welcomes Boy George to its intro, before setting flight on another brilliantly imaginative dance floor inspired number, blending an organic house groove with soul and disco vibes. “I just felt that the second to last song needed to have that kind of long, blues-rock vibe after New York and One Tear, to snap the listener back. It gives the album a much better shape than if you write a load of songs and then try to force them to rub up against each other.” A good example is Satellite Kid. ![]() “We work out what’s missing from the journey through the album as we go along and try to fill the gaps with the right kind of song next. “That’s how I like doing it now,” he explains. Both themes have been constants in his writing through his life and are tied together here wonderfully.įrom there, Weller and his two key recording colleagues, drummer Ben Gordelier and Andy Crofts (guitars/keys), set about sequencing the rest of the album as Weller wrote it. To maintain that average, Weller started work on A Kind Revolution immediately after finishing 2015’s Saturns Pattern, first tickling out the funky strut of New York and the beautiful slow-mo gospel of The Cranes Are Back – a song that ties in the changing face of London with the power of nature. ![]() It’s hard to think of many artists who average the same number of albums, better than one new studio album every two years for 40 years – let alone any who have maintained the same level of quality throughout. Writing, recording, playing – that’s how I communicate best.” “It’s about leaving a legacy, it’s about creating. “It’s not about looking back,” he explains in the garden behind his Black Barn Studios in Surrey, where he made his 25th studio album, A Kind Revolution. He powers forwards, always, almost clinically averse to nostalgia or checking his progress in the rear-view mirror. Instead, Paul Weller will mark his 40th anniversary of recording albums by releasing a new studio album, almost bang on the anniversary date in May, because releasing new albums is what Paul Weller does. But Paul Weller is not like most artists. For most artists such a landmark would be greeted with extensive retrospective celebrations: lavish reissues, commemorative tours of the original album. This year, 2017, marks the 40th anniversary of Paul Weller’s first album, In The City, which he released with The Jam in May 1977. ![]()
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