Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (CD)

Nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize.

Reflecting the urgency and claustrophobia of city life, the record dispensed with the acoustic, folky and pastoral influences of Weller's recent work and introduced more jagged rock styles with angry, urban and metallic influences - Diamond Dogs, Low-period Bowie riffs.

Very experimental, mostly short songs but with a sense of adventure - often packing a suite's worth of twists into one song - the updated New Orleans shuffle meets bonkers music hall of Many of the left turns arrive via the arrangements - witness the careening chaos after the chorus of Grasp & Still Connect, or the mutating psychedelia of Andromeda

Amongst the experimentation though, Jam fans will love the tightly wound collaboration with Bruce Foxton on Fast Car/Slow Traffic, the dense dangerous heartbeat and militaristic sound collage of 7&3 Is the Strikers Name (featuring My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields).

Style Council fans will appreciate the jazz waltz of In Amsterdam or No Tears to Cry - a sublime Walker Brothers style ballad, as well as Aim High, his finest blue-eyed soul ballad in ages.

Track list
Moonshine
Wake Up the Nation
No Tears to Cry
Fast Car / Slow Traffic
Andromeda
In Amsterdam
She Speaks
Find the Torch / Burn the Plans
Aim High
Trees
Grasp & Still Connect
Whatever Next
7 & 3 is the Striker's Name
Up the Dosage
Pieces of a Dream
Two Fat Ladies

General

Label:	Island Records
Release date:	November 2020
Performers:	Paul Weller
Format:
Categories:	Music > Pop / Rock Promotions
LSN:	X2U-CNK-3Q1-6
Barcode:	0602508624667

Package Contents

Package Contents:

1 x Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation

Physical Specification

Weight (kg):

0.09

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• Number of discs: 1
• Released: January 8, 2021
• EAN/UPC: 0602508624667
• Label: UMC/ISLAND
• Genre: Rock: Rock / Pop
• Dimensions: 90 g

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