Prefab Sprout / Andromeda Heights (2013 Blu-spec CD 2 edition) Жанр: Alternative/Indie Rock, Sophisti-Pop Носитель: BSCD2 Страна-производитель диска (релиза): Japan Год издания: 2013 (1997) Издатель (лейбл): Sony Music (Epic) Номер по каталогу: SICP 30405 Страна исполнителя (группы): UK Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks+.cue Продолжительность: 00:51:05 Источник: собственный рип Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да
01. Electric Guitars 03:41 02. A Prisoner of the Past 05:02 03. The Mystery of Love 04:38 04. Life’s a Miracle 03:45 05. Anne Marie 04:35 06. Whoever You Are 02:48 07. Steal Your Thunder 03:42 08. Avenue of Stars 03:59 09. Swans 02:36 10. The Fifth Horseman 04:43 11. Weightless 03:37 12. Andromeda Heights 04:07 13. Just Because I Can (bonus track) 03:53 Al songs written by Paddy McAloon
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“‘ And when we’ve built it, we’ll call it Andromeda Heights. . .’: Prefab Sprout’s Andromeda Heights” Paddy McAloon is an English artist who’s been crafting beautiful music with his band Prefab Sprout since the early ’80s. The band’s music is often pigeonholed as pop; however, it spans an eclectic number of styles all the while retaining a smooth and sophisticated sound. The band have evolved throughout the years, releasing their hit album Steve McQueen to immense critical acclaim. The album was a strange mix, but deeply gorgeous and profound for a pop album experience. It was from then on the band would become legendary, with Paddy McAloon even calling the release “the greatest album of the ’80s so far” in a 1985 interview. A quote that’s often been deeply misunderstood, much like this band. Going through phases of atmospheric pop-grandeur, often with sophisti-pop, R&B, and lounge music as a primary anchor, the band finally took a long break from music after releasing Jordan: The Comeback and it was well-needed. The album they would release seven years later, Andromeda Heights, was a force unlike anything they’ve put forward in the past. It is clear from this powerful effort that McAloon became obsessed with the many allegories and integral connections between the metaphysical, or God, and the theme of true love. Here he is honest, open, and forthright with his convictions. His life was changed by love, and he wishes to share that with us, stripped of all pretense. The album starts off with “Electric Guitars,” a gorgeous tune that is influenced by the Beatles. The atmosphere here is amazing. McAloon sounds like a character from a Victorian fantasy tale or flamboyant anime, and the music is so divine it makes one think of a magical kingdom somewhere. Thus, the sound of this album is decidedly far more soothing and laid back than other Prefab Sprout releases, and arguably it focuses primarily on melodic interactions, utilizing beautiful instrumental reprises in songs. The instrumentation is extremely refined, and very chamber-esque for pop; its downtempo, driven by light mostly acoustic guitars, keyboard, piano and sublime saxophone work. In addition, horn and orchestral work accompany the mix, along with small doses of flute. When put together, the very classically inspired instruments take on a very star-like, celestial sound, that carries the album through beautifully as if it were a beautiful Broadway production where every song rings with a resounding echo of genuine humanity and hope. That’s what this album is all about. Cherishing life, and hoping for the best possible future. In the song “Weightless” (one of the album’s highlights), Paddy exclaims “Love is a pure sensation, I feel like Yuri Gagarin. . . . Love has given me a new slant on it all; the Galaxy’s a nightclub, Earth’s a mirrorball.” This is just one example of the ingenious lyrical content on display here. It is after Jordan: The Comeback, and then this album, Paddy solidifies himself as one of the great spiritually conscious composers of the silent but ever-present sophisticated pop movement, along with other music messiahs, such as Sade, David Sylvian, and Seal. The man and his band are as in tune with the world as ever before, and they create an album trapped in a wondrous place of contemplative, love-drunk ecstasy. This is the album Gatsby might wish were about him. A sincere love letter to love itself from a deeply enchanted past. A past that we could learn quite a bit from, especially now. What Paddy has always said is that he is the biggest fan of his records, and that he creates them not for others, but for personal enjoyment. For the love of music itself. I can’t think of a more noble artistic sentiment. (Posted on 16/03/2018 by AnimalsAsSummit (sputnikmusic.com) https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/76439/Prefab-Sprout-Andromeda-Heights/
One of the most acclaimed British pop bands of the ’80s and ’90s, Prefab Sprout was the creative vehicle of vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Paddy McAloon, who has been regularly hailed as one of the greatest songwriters of his era. McAloon has often been compared favorably to Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, and even Cole Porter, not just because of his lyrical and instrumental gifts but for the ambitious creative vision of his catalog. A notorious perfectionist who is also known for his shyness and his struggles with health problems, McAloon has created a relatively small body of work (ten albums in three decades), but Prefab Sprout’s music is beloved in the U.K., and they have a smaller but passionately loyal audience in the United States. Moving from the smart, beautifully crafted pop of 1984’s Swoon and 1985’s Steve McQueen (titled Two Wheels Good in the U.S.), Prefab Sprout would explore the influences of American music on 1988’s From Langley Park to Memphis, embrace the sound and style of stage musicals on 1990’s Jordan: The Comeback, use the Old West as a metaphor on the 2001 concept album The Gunman and Other Stories, and celebrated the power and energy of music on 2009’s Let’s Change the World with Music and 2013’s Crimson/Red. Prefab Sprout were formed in Newcastle, England, in 1977 by Paddy McAloon, who sings and plays guitar and piano, and his bass-playing younger brother, Martin. In the group’s early days, McAloon spun several fanciful tales about the origin of their odd name (one favorite was that the young McAloon had misheard the line “hotter than a pepper sprout” in Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's “Jackson”), but the truth is that an adolescent McAloon had devised the meaningless name in homage to the long-winded and equally silly band names of his late-’60s/early-’70s youth. With an early fan, Wendy Smith, drafted into the lineup to sing helium-register backing vocals, the trio released its first single, “Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone),” on its own Candle label in July 1982. Written for a girlfriend who had left Newcastle to study in Limoges, France (check the acronym of the title), the song was exceedingly clever, but obviously heartfelt. The single’s warm reception, including many plays on John Peel’s radio show, led to the Sprout’s signing to CBS subsidiary Kitchenware Records, which reissued the single in April 1983. Another single, “The Devil Has All the Best Tunes,” followed later that year. Prefab Sprout’s first album, Swoon, was released in March 1984. Shortly after Swoon’s release, drummer Neil Conti joined the group, and Thomas Dolby was tapped to produce the second Prefab Sprout album, 1985’s Steve McQueen (retitled Two Wheels Good in the U.S. due to litigation from the late actor’s estate). Dolby smoothed out the kinks a bit, and his keyboards helped enrich the album’s sound. Prefab Sprout returned to the studio without Dolby in the summer of 1985 and quickly recorded an album’s worth of material that was initially meant to be released in a limited edition as a tour souvenir. However, several months after Steve McQueen was released, its song “When Love Breaks Down” (which had been released as a single four different times in the U.K. without chart success) finally became a hit, and CBS feared a new album would hurt its predecessor’s sales, so the project was shelved. The “proper” follow-up to Steve McQueen was 1988’s From Langley Park to Memphis. It became their biggest hit, thanks to the massive U.K. chart success of “The King of Rock and Roll” (about a one-hit wonder stuck performing his silly novelty song on the nostalgia circuit; ironically, it was Prefab Sprout’s sole U.K. Top Ten hit and remains their best-known song) and the U.S. college radio success of the genial Bruce Springsteen parody “Cars and Girls.” Following that chart action, CBS dusted off the shelved acoustic project from 1985 and released it (in the U.K. only) under the title Protest Songs in June 1989. Issued in 1990, Jordan: The Comeback, which McAloon describes as a concept album about Jesse James and Elvis Presley, was released to enormous critical acclaim in late 1990, but unfortunately, its ornate, lush production and suite-like structure doomed it to commercial failure in the U.S., though it was another big hit in the U.K. A fine but unimaginative best-of, A Life of Surprises, met similar respective fates in the summer of 1992. Many thought Prefab Sprout disbanded at that point, and indeed, Conti did leave the band at some point in the ’90s. However, McAloon had written (and in some cases, recorded) several albums’ worth of material during the first half of the decade, abandoning them all before finally releasing the crystalline Andromeda Heights in 1997. The album wasn’t even released in the U.S., but it was another deserved U.K. hit. An album of subtle beauty, Andromeda Heights showed how far McAloon had come as a songwriter and singer since Swoon. A much-improved two-disc anthology, The 38 Carat Collection, was released by CBS in 1999 as the group was leaving the label. (Unexpectedly, the group’s U.S. label, Epic, belatedly reissued this set as The Collection in early 2001.) Wendy Smith left the group during this period, after the birth of her first child. Prefab Sprout, by this point consisting solely of the McAloon brothers, signed to EMI in late 2000 and delivered their Western-themed concept album, The Gunman and Other Stories, in early 2001. Unfortunately, the album’s release was delayed several months when Paddy McAloon was diagnosed with a medical disorder rendering him partially blind. As McAloon was homebound due to his health problems between 1999 and 2002, he wrote an album of music inspired by true life stories he recorded from radio broadcasts. Combining the radio recordings with orchestral arrangements of McAloon’s melodies, the mostly instrumental I Trawl the Megahertz became his first solo album when it was released in 2003. After a six-year layoff, McAloon returned to recording as Prefab Sprout and released the self-produced, performed, and recorded Let’s Change the World with Music in 2009. This set’s songs and concept date to 1992 and were originally to be recorded as the follow-up album to Jordan: The Comeback; for various reasons, those sessions never happened. It was initially issued by Ministry of Sound and later in the year licensed by Sony/BMG in the U.K. In 2010, the independent Tompkins Square imprint issued the album in the United States. Both the album Crimson/Red and its lead single, “The Best Jewel Thief in the World,” were issued by the Icebreaker label in 2013. In March 2017, a video posted on the Internet featured a homemade solo acoustic clip of McAloon performing an original song, “America,” a protest against U.S. immigration policies under Donald Trump. In 2019, Sony reissued McAloon’s I Trawl the Megahertz under the Prefab Sprout banner. (Stewart Mason, AllMusic)
Due to Paddy McAloon’s obsessive perfectionism, Andromeda Heights was the first Prefab Sprout album in seven years. Of course, it was greeted with anticipation, but the album doesn’t quite fulfill the hopes of the group’s fervent followers. On one hand, it doesn’t deliver enough after the sweeping Jordan: The Comeback, since it is just a collection of 12 well-crafted songs. On the other hand, the sound of Andromeda Heights is so similar to all of Prefab Sprout’s previous albums, it’s hard to believe that it took McAloon so long to write the album. Even with these faults, Andromeda Heights is a solid Prefab Sprout record, filled with elegant melodies, wry lyrics and immaculate production, but after seven years, that nevertheless ranks as a disappointment. (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic)
ANDROMEDA HEIGHTS ORCHESTRA VOCALS: Wendy Smith, Paddy McAloon BASS GUITAR, FRETLESS BASS: Martin McAloon PERCUSSION: Paul Smith GUITARS: David Brewis (except where stated) LEAD GUITAR on “Anne Marie” and RHYTHM GUITAR on “Andromeda Heights”: Martin Taylor TENOR SAXOPHONE, SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, FLUTE: Tommy Smith HAMMOND ORGAN on “The Mystery of Love”: Alan Clark, on “The Fifth Horseman”: Calum Malcolm HARMONICA: Frazer Spiers PIANO, KEYBOARDS, PROGRAMMING: Paddy McAloon, Calum Malcolm FAKE MANDOLIN ENSEMBLE and ACOUSTIC GUITARS on “A Prisoner of the Past”: David Brewis, Jim Hornsby, Paddy McAloon Produced by Paddy McAloon
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