The Fireman
Electric Arguments

THE REVIEW

Hello everyone.

For those who don't know, The Fireman is a duo composed of Paul McCartney and Youth (Martin Glover - famous producer and former bassist for Killing Joke).

Electric Arguments is their third work after Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (1993) and Rushes (1998).

I'll be brief in this, my first Debaserian time, by saying right away that McCartney has rarely recorded and released such a "modern", immediate work, rich with the most diverse sounds and musical cues.

If it has always been said, and partly rightly so, that McCartney's music needs careful production to give its best (which often, unfortunately, had to make up for a lack of ideas), this time we can enjoy the former Beatle without frills and in the midst of a very happy, instinctive, creative moment, finally far from market demands, which Paul too, too often, has let himself be influenced by.

The album consists of 13 tracks which almost perfectly, in my very personal opinion, fulfill the main task of music, which is to live better, forgetting reality as much as possible during those minutes.

The sounds, instruments, and atmospheres you hear are numerous (violins, flutes, mandolins, synthesizers, and percussion of all kinds, etc.) but well-blended in this work, truly "multiethnic" without ever becoming an incoherent jumble. Rather, it is the coherence of the whole that leaves an impression of "slow-release" compactness at the end, truly rare for McCartney.

Electric Arguments is not a masterpiece, but it is certainly a true gem and perhaps will be remembered as one of Paul’s best works, at his most creative and instinctive. You can listen to it online for free.

Goodbye everyone.