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The Proclaimers - Notes & Rhymes
The single ‘Life With You’ to open up their last album was like having your main present first on Christmas day and the rest of the sack not quite living up to the first gift. The single to preclude this album was ‘Love Can Move Montains’, lets hope this is a stocking filler to the main gifts to come.
There had been a good gap between the Proclaimers last two albums and an even bigger one to their hayday. Some of their best songs were fuelled by the scottish political and social situation of the time and I felt they had lost this angst in their writing. Maybe society or the brothers or both have moved on but it is still very unusual for two scottish people not to find something to moan about.
If we can return to the Christmas theme (and there are only 28 weeks to go). I raced through the album looking for the latest action man vechile or computer game to initially be dissapointed , but it wasn’t all jumpers from grandma. With the wrapping paper cleared away I discovered a group of thoughtful, soleful songs that existing fans will enjoy.
The title track ‘Notes and Rhymes’ gives it a punchy lively start. ‘Love Can Move Mountains’ is a decent album track but probably not strong enough to lead out the team, although this was rated as a massive hit on the Chris Evans radio show do not be fooled they could probably turn up and break wind and still score highly.
- The Proclaimers
- Notes & Rhymes (2009)
- Category: Album
- Label: W14/Universal
- Reviewed by: stevie.p
- Published on: 16 Jun 2009
- Comments: 0
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Add to favourites‘Just Look Now’ and ‘Sing All Our Cares Away’ are two great stories of struggling communities and characters, the latter was written by Damien Dempsey a good irish song writer. “Mary Loves A Grouse, Hides The Bottles Around The House”. ‘It Was Always So Easy To Find An Unhappy Woman’ is one of the longest titles you will come across and ‘On Causewayside’ is a nice staple Proclaimers ballad albeit based around a pavement.
So all in all you can decline your sisters kind offer of a brush of her girls world, santa’s not been unkind, a good album for Proclamers fans but probably nothing to feature on any future soundtracks.
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