(Indie, Britpop) Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) - Oh No I Love You (Deluxe Edition) (2CD) - 2012, MP3, 320 kbps

1. White
2. The Doors Of Then
3. A Case For Vinyl
4. The Graduate
5. Hours
6. Tobacco Fields
7. Anytime Minutes
8. The Great Outdoors Bitches
9. The Economy
10. A Gain

1. The Doors Of Then (The Spaced Cowboy Mix)
2. Hours (Tandy Love Remix)
3. The Great Outdoors Bitches (O Genesis Remix)
4. Our Economy (O Genesis Remix)
5. White Factory (Factory Floor Gabe Gurnsey Remix)
6. The Doors Of Then (Michael Cliffe House Remix)

Chart-topping frontman, author, DJ, champion tweeter, keen collaborator, label-owner and cereal and coffee magnate. Tim Burgess is a modern renaissance minstrel who has spent much of the past two decades having men and women alike swoon over him. Having released his first solo album, I Believe, in 2003, Tim hasn’t been in a hurry to follow it up. But he’s had excuses: The Charlatans continues to be a going concern, and real-life issues have played their part in keeping this second record on ice.
The origin of Oh No I Love You comes from when Tim carried Kurt Wagner’s guitar from a venue in Manchester to his car, and cheekily asked Kurt if the Lambchop frontman would write a song with him. Almost a decade later he headed to Nashville, and that song became this album.
Featuring members of Lambchop, My Morning Jacket and Factory Floor, alongside Chris Scruggs, R Stevie Moore, a gospel choir and string arrangements from High Llamas lynchpin Sean O’Hagan, Oh No I Love You showcases Tim’s winning way of managing to fit his surroundings perfectly.
Musically, due to the people involved, tracks such as The Economy and the superb astral-brass country of White bear a slight resemblance to Lambchop’s masterpiece Nixon, while the beautiful Hours allows Burgess to embrace the full country soul ambience with a sweet Stones-y falsetto.
A Case for Vinyl is one of Tim’s best vocals with a genuinely lovely arrangement that suggests it would work well with a lighter aloft. Tobacco Fields has him singing almost subsonically beneath portentous rumbling, and the regret of the superbly titled The Great Outdoors, Bitches shuffles along on a bed of trombone, conga and drum machine.
You feel Burgess’ enthusiasm for the project shine through. Oh No I Love You is a warm affair and a slightly more together reflection of Tim than I Believe was, and the accompanying remix album with cosmic re-works by the likes of Seahawks is a bonus too. This deserves to find itself in as many homes as possible.