Archive for November, 2008
Saying you dislike Take That in their new-and-improved formation is a bit like saying you don’t like Thumper or Bambi: plain wrong. After all, Gary’s lost all that weight and kept it off, so the least you could do is give the guy a break, right? The second long-player from the revamped Fab Four sees them evolve from pert comeback Beautiful World, spinning their sound to a whole new grown-up level, replete with four lead singers, strings, sha-la-la-laaas aplenty and no little amount of joie de vive. With The Circus, it seems that Take That have flexed their ample musical muscle and proven that they’re no pop clowns…
Snow Patrol’s knack for producing songs that can be played in the background of shows like ER and Grey’s Anatomy has never been in doubt, with Chasing Cars and Run being prime examples. Back in 2004, Run reached No.5 in the UK charts, but RealMusic Blog always thought it was a bit of a dirge - albeit one with a great song lurking underneath. Step forward Leona to uncover that gem: her cover of said song was performed for Radio 1’s Live Lounge series, but has since proved so popular that she’s now releasing it as a single, thanks in no small part to her sparkling appearance on the all-conquering X Factor…
Everybody’s favourite 90s ravers The Prodigy are back, back, back with a new album and tour set to explode into your eyes & ears in March next year. The new album, Invaders Must Die, is the first for nearly five years from Braintree’s finest and is described by somebody or other who absolutely knows as “40 minutes of having your head battered by future nostalgia, serotonin levels twisted by feel-good horrorcore and your synapses snapped by whiplash attitude”. We couldn’t have put it better ourselves. You’re going to have to wait until next year to purchase (or somehow download) a copy - not that we would suggest such a thing, so stop it. You’re so illegal sometimes. But if you can’t wait that long, the title track is available to download from TONIGHT…
Two years on from The Truth About Love, Lemar is back with his fourth studio album The Reason which is, according to the man himself, a real departure. After swallowing it whole, what struck RealMusic Blog is that the first single, If She Knew, is not the best song on the album. Perhaps not even the second or third best - and don’t get us wrong, it’s no turkey. Maybe the fact that it has the most R&B feel made it the strongest contender for the singles chart, sitting solidly in the Radio 1 top 20 and pipped only by Beyonce herself on the R&B chart. Tipped to be the second single off the album, Weight Of The World is another soulful offering that displays Lemar’s rich voice and poetic penmanship to chart perfection.
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