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First impressions...
- Subject: First impressions...
- From: "Nathaniel Mumford" <nathanielmumford@ho...com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:12:29 +0000
- Bcc:
I'm old-fashioned, & rushed down the shops for my copy at the first
opportunity.
And i like it, i think..
The first shock is that there is no rodney solo spotlight; in fact, he's
hardly on there at all if you look at the credits, maybe lending credence to
rumours of a bit of a to-do between them? Especially given that his putative
solo album has never seen the light, it seems a bit odd that not even one
solo effort has made it onto this album.
Nor is there a credit for Wojtek, which must be another first. Although he's
been looking after the kids for a good few years now, in fairness.
But once you get past these shockettes, and if you can pass over its
relative brevity - 10 songs - i think it might be a sound addition to the
canon. It's no vintage rocking aeroplanes record; there are very few big
tunes to which one might bare one's chest in the Borderline's moshpit. Only
Up in a Down World, Surreal Thing, Raise the Roof and possibly Bright Star
Catalogue get above mid-tempo, and there's certainly no And Stones or
suchlike to get the blood really flowing.
But nor is there an 'Open' or similar misdemeanour, which can only be a good
thing. And at the production is significantly improved on the
shed-at-the-end-of-the-garden lo-fi of 'Record Player'.
What it does seem to consist of is a clutch of more plangent, downbeat, mood
pieces, where the vocals wash into and out of focus. He seems to be
increasingly reflective and less declamatory - and adulthood is an explicit
statement to this effect. Tree full of starlings, Hexanal, star below &
multinational, plus the bookends, all seem to derive much more from the more
impressionistic music of 'Cavaliers' than from the classic rock
riff/verse/chorus/big production major label albums, but i get the distinct
impression that this is the direction he's heading these days, and that this
is maybe no bad thing.
I don't know whether Richard Bell is still on this list, but either way -
'Beautiful Is' is the easy favourite so far. though anything with angelo on
runs it close.
The only other thing it makes me wonder is - and maybe lisa can tell us -
whether there are more songs written/recorded, or whether that's it for
another five or six years? Given that at least a couple of the songs on
there date from the early nineties, does he have a wardrobe full of newer
things to unleash on us...?
This should keep us going for a little while, though.
nat
From: <peter@in...co.uk>
Reply-To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List <blueplanes@st...net>
To: "The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List" <blueplanes@st...net>
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Altitude advert
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:29:53 +0100
got altitude delivered to me this am - already ripped to me pc so dont
panic.
first listen is good and think it will be a grower too
.
tree full of starlings is luverley - but it so reminds me of the wateryboys
----- Original Message -----
From: gordon
To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Altitude advert
Somebody put up a site here a little while back, showing the Altitude
cover.
I took it for granted as a work of Ann Sheldon, but apparently not.
In any case, it's Classic Blue Aeroplanes.
Pity EMI couldn't stretch to a vinyl release.
T.Rex
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Ash
To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Altitude advert
The cover for Altitude was taken from a painting by one of Gerard's
friends. He liked the way the plane is exactly at right angles/follows the
lines of the streets. EMI thoguht it was cool too and it reminded all of us
in the meeting of a similar, very famous photo... I DID find out what that
was but Ive forgotten again now! (Imagine it as a photo and in black and
white and THATS the photo Im thinking of!)
No 911 references, I think G has only just got the artwork for, it
as his mate was still finishing it when the EMI deal was signed...
Sommin like that anyway! I can't quite remember now, but this is the
kinda thing that I want to put on the MySpace site. :) Little bits of
trivia-ry info like this.
blueaeroplanes.com will be live by the time Altitude comes out -
they better get a wriggle on tho eh?! I think it's gonna be more of a 'chat
about the albums' site rather than any kind of detailed and specific BA's
place. Hence (again!) my ideas for MySpace.
We really DO need a proper 'place' for all this stuff. ...and Pete,
I will email you re: your offer! Thank you! :)
Lis
x
On 2 Apr 2006, at 01:11, Nick White wrote:
There's a big, well-placed advert in yesterday's Guardian guide.
Well done EMI. Shame about the bizarrely inserted apostrophe in
Aeroplanes, though, and who decided to quote the 7/10 in NME? - I thought
that was quite a low rating.
The cover seems to be of a plane flying low over Manhattan - note
the distinctive Chrysler building behind the title line. A deliberate
September 11 reference, a composite city, an old painting, or of no
significance at all? You decide....
Yours controversially,
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