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Here we are, five years after "New," talking about Sir McCartney's upcoming LP "Egypt Station," which will be released on September 7th. After a series of mysterious clues released on social media over the past week, the good old great Paul has revealed some details about the new album and released the first "double A-Side" to promote it. It was known that the album would be released this year, but there were no more updates about it for months until an enigmatic stylized image of a railway gallery appeared on his Instagram profile.
Here comes this new single, the first double A-side since the Wings era, breaking through the radios. We are talking about a composer who, at seventy-six years old, is still able to express himself without much trouble; with the previous "New," he surprised everyone with a modern album that topped the charts worldwide, once again shining a spotlight on one of the greatest composers of the last century. But let's come to "Come on to Me", preceded by a secret performance in a Liverpool pub a few weeks ago, this song starts with a sharp and decisive sound without much embellishment around it. A rough melody that recalls many tracks from Wings' "Back to the Egg" with a singing style that almost borders on a driving rap, then evolves into funk with pumping horns that harken back to Macca's best during the Wings period ('73-'78). It's a concert track while "I Don't Know" is a piano ballad, very melancholic, that fits into a certain canonical style of Paul's, reminiscent in parts of "Only Love Remains" from 1983 and "Beautiful Night" from 1997. Two masterful ballads by Paul, especially the latter which closed the poignant and painful "Flaming Pie" before the intimate "Great Day", during the illness of the beloved Linda. However, in this song, the melancholic piano style significantly marks the piece; there are no details yet regarding the musicians involved in these two recordings, although it is known that the first Wings drummer Denny Seiwell is present on some tracks of the album, the drumming style of "I Don't Know" is very similar to that of the American drummer.
Awaiting this new album, a sort of railway concept where each song is inspired by a station, let's enjoy the return of Macca.
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