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Some artists, confronted with the fall of their creative years, are working to write a summary statement of life that could be enough to constitute a last real statement. Think of Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind," or – on a much more celebratory level, because he's a celebratory guy – Paul McCartney's "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" or "Memory Almost Full". last in particular had a "If it's the last album I ever do", feel all-out. The problem of writing a quality assessment report follows when you have years to go: what do you do for a reminder when you have already sung "My Way"?
In the case of McCartney, it becomes exciting. It was the message, anyway, generated by "Come On to Me," the first single preview of his new album, "Egypt Station" – a ready-made piece of randy rock reminiscent of salad days "Why do not we do it on the road? "And" Hello, hello, hello. "Were we ready for his polygon? If so, there was more salacity in the instant recognition track "Fuh You", with its pun. It was clear that bass Hofner heard melodic cries about "Come On," with her more contemporary muse, Nancy Shevell, who have the power to rejuvenate the month of September by a month of June.
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Now that the full album is revealed, "Egypt Station" does not turn out to be the hello to "Dirty Mind" – the days when everyone could have feared or hoped for these two titles. McCartney is very interested in keeping things alive, if not always vigorous, while making room for the quieter reflections heard during the "Chaos" of 2005. For most of the record, he alternates them: spry rocker followed a serious rumination, then return again. It's a handbag, if not a travel book (placing "station" references in the title and cover art being the clever way of the cheater to make a concept album without concept). If it's not McCartney's most consistent collection, it's fascinating how much he's trying to avoid doing one thing when he's 76, when he can do a dozen. Slut, he is Macca.
Yet another preview piece, "I do not know," was a solid teaser for the sweeter side of "Station" – a beautiful mix of doubt and comfort with a melancholy folded that you could wish McCartney on the other hand. the sadness you can with the signature bearer pop up thumbs up. "Happy With You," a Mother Nature's style fingerpicker – or "Put It There" – is as silly as love songs, with the little boy on the bill for the pot of adventure that he has exchanged in his love stoner days. The elaborate acoustic opening of "Dominoes" gives way to a powerful backbeat and a chorus that could be described as power pop, before ending with tape loops that resemble Paul's way of saying "Tomorrow Never Knows "was not everything.
"Who Cares" joins "Come On to Me" as the second actor among staccato-riff electric guitar recorders, with live grooves provided by McCartney's band. There is also evidence that he can still draw the "woo hoo" falsetto that he has learned from Little Richard, even though in recent times there is a beautiful voice and maybe a single howl. Things get more zany in the back half of the album, while co-lead producer Greg Kurstin wins his dungeon with "Back in Brazil" and his (yes) Brazilian flavors and electropop. Two trifurcated seven-minute titles, "While Repeated Warnings" and "Go You Down / Naked / C-Link," have entrusted McCartney with his trends. Why? Because he can, and because he knows what you're doing for "Abbey Road," Side 2.
Blame single co-writer-producer Ryan Tedder for allowing, if not inventing, "Fuh You", a moaner of each level. The opposite of this nudge-nudge is "Despite the repeated warnings," a metaphor spread over a ship of lunatics; It's good to hear a star of this magnitude grapple with our current turmoil, although it is sufficiently metaphorical for British critics to insist that it is really Brexit, not Trump. Beyond this global emergency, there is a personal urgency to "do it now", an autumn call to capture moments "while the vision is clear … while the feeling is there". even among all these vampings very friendly.
Paul Mccartney
"Egypt Station"
Capitol Records
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