| Using my years of expert musical opinion, I'm listening to the new cd now, and here is what I think, track by track:
1-Run
Rabbit Run-- A track most of us are already familiar with, first listened to on The Bureau's "...and another thing" album,
this has a more up front hammond on it, brass seems more prominent, Archie's voice as strong as ever.
2-Hundred
Dollar Bill--A jaunty rocksteadish track, brass sounding superb, band very tight, liking this a lot.
3-Chasing
Shadows--Bloody hell, the brass are fucking immense on this, reminds me of 1981 all over again, Archie's passionate vocals
riding this high.
4--Heaven has come--Like a cross between Joe Cocker and Van the Man, Archie's vocals
are very smooth, very passionate and uplifting brass on this, with a cool hammond organ breaking in and out, superb.
5--The
narrative of G Bristol Groot--A funky brass heavy track starts out to tell a tale and keeps the listener interested until
the end.A must listen even for the sax solo near the end, and then the guitar solo, oh it's all bloody genius!
6--Freedom
March--Another track familiar from "and another thing" featuring quite beautiful solos from Sir James Patterson and Lord Blythe.
7--Falling--Another
song I loved from AAT, this is slightly slower, hammond and brass seem a lot louder, beautiful song, no crowd cheering on
this version, they can leave that for us to do!
8--Two Broken Hearts--Oh yes, a toe tapper of the
finest degree, If a ran radio(which of course I should do!) then this would be on every playlist known, a hit, a big hit,
can imagine all of us getting up to dance to this, even me, with my sizeable bulk would be cutting moves!
9--Fine
Mess Rag-Another AAT known track, beautifully paced version this, brass more upfront and longer, a tighter version here in
my opinion.
10--Lost in Space--..and we have lift off! and the "trip" starts, very glad to be on
board for this journey, a hypnotic and chilled out song but it still manages to keep the listener involved and wanting more.
11--Persecuted
Musician syndrome blues--Now, being someone who has not ventured out of europe, this is how I imagine the back yards of the
states to be in the deep south, Can imagine a party going down to this track, with grits and root beer and the occasional
corn dog, like I say, I don't get out much, love this track tho.
So, all in all, 5 stars from me,
this needs to be in your collection if you are a fan of dexys or not, someone needs to give Joolz Holland a bell and get these
guys on his show, brilliant stuff, thankyou Geoff and the guys.
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