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Rating: A few years after their masterpiece 'Costello Music', the bubbly trio from Glasgow is back, deciding to take full responsibility for their new CD by recording without a producer.
So, just pop 'Here We Stand' into the stereo and listen:
the opening song, as we know, must not disappoint, and so you are pleasantly surprised while listening to 'My friend Jhon', which has nothing to lose from the fun and beautiful 'Henrietta' or 'Chelsea Dagger' from 'Costello Music'.
Then, immediately, a well-crafted 'A heady Tale' slowly introduces (it lasts about 5 minutes) what promises to be a more melodious CD with more crafted chords compared to their first creation.
And so, with 'Mistress Mabel', 'Look Out Sunshine', 'Stragglers Moon', 'Baby Doll', 'Acid Jazz Singer', 'Lupe Brown', and the superb closing ballad 'Milk and Money', The Fratellis present us with a much more melodious record than the previous one. The aforementioned tracks bring a lot of joy, no boredom. Perhaps someone might be disappointed, expecting something more rocking and fast from the trio. But the aforementioned tracks are really well done and enjoyable. Interrupting the flow of the album we find their obligatory tracks, like 'Shameless' and 'Tell Me A Lie' (featured in Fifa 2009), which break the relatively calm and quiet flow of the album with a burst of energy not just on the first listen.
An overall well-made record, perhaps not comparable to "Costello Music", where however, the surprise effect had contributed. In my opinion, The Fratellis will have much more to tell us in the future, considering that they have only been making music for 3 years, I hope the trio will still have much to teach Europe, which now only knows commercial phenomena such as Tokio Hotel and Lady Gaga.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
06 Mistress Mabel (04:27)
1, 2, 3, Owww
Mistress Mabel, you're seriously wrong,
Clears my table, bang and then she's gone,
Takes a liberty if you let her,
Yes she's old but she should know better,
Oh dear Mabel please don't put me on,
Mistress Mabel, all the kids agree,
You're unstable, curious and free,
Wine em down, and then keep em kickin',
Sunken eyed and all panic stricken'
Oh Dear Mabel it still worries me.
Well and like rat bag, so they told her,
Last nights name tag, across her shoulder.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this willful fable
Tell me Mabel.
Mistress Mabel, won't you marry me?
I'm unable to take it seriously
I'll be good, and you'll be a minute
I wish you would, or I'll drop you in it.
Oh dear Mabel wont you marry me?
And like rat bag, so they told her,
Last nights name tag, across her shoulder.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle,
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this wealthy fable,
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle,
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this wealthy fable,
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me where all the days have gone, When you rocked my cradle,
Tell me Mabel.
Where'd you go when you can't go on with this filthy fable,
Tell me Mabel.
Tell me Mabel.
10 Acid Jazz Singer (04:21)
Well let me tell you something, let me tell you so
This could be the one thing that you really need to know
You got to stop once in a while and shake off that face of yours
Cause nothing comes easy no it just comes free
You could sing it better if you'd sing it for me, oh sister
Well cannot claim this advice as my own
I learned it in the gutter one night coming home
She said Don't you look ridiculous I checked her out meticulously
And though I would've stopped to argue but my teeth were broke
I said I'd love to contradict you but my life's a joke, oh sister
She said I'm no genius and I've lost my self
the books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf
And it's one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go
Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow
Some said she was saintly to some she was a swinger
Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer, come on
Well I'm a lucky man and maybe so is she
And maybe this is just the way it has to be
It's all based on speculation seems a crazy occupation to me
And though I didn't much believe her I was bound to call
I really didn't want to miss a single thing at all, oh sister
She said I'm no genius and I've lost my self
the books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf
And it's one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go
Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow
Some said she was saintly to some she was a swinger
Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer, come on
She said I'm no genius and I've lost my self
the books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf
And it's one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go
Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow
Some said she was saintly to some she was a singer
Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer
I haven't seen her lately man I have to ring her
Put your hands together for the Acid jazz singer, come on
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By Keith
"Here We Stand is the ideal follow-up to Costello Music, another collection of fresh tracks graced by an ease of writing."
"They don't invent anything new, but they know very well how to craft irresistible songs."
By walrus
With listening comes the sensation of being in a Glasgow pub, dancing and getting drunk, just like in the previous album.
An honest pop-rock album that can certainly hold its own, and perhaps even win, against that 'Costello Music' that brought so much fortune to the trio.
