Paul Weller - Fat Pop - Vinyl LP
Fat Pop (Volume 1) – Paul adding the “Volume 1” to keep options open for a second volume in the future – is a diverse selection of sounds. No one style dominates. There’s the synth-heavy, future-wave strut of Cosmic Fringes, the stately balladeering of Still Glides The Stream (co-written with Steve Cradock), the chunky percussive groove of Moving Canvas (a tribute to Iggy Pop no less), and the kind of dramatic immediate pop symphonies on Failed, True and Shades of Blue with which Paul Weller has hooked in generation after generation of devotee.
As ever, Fat Pop, sees a number of guests contributing including Lia Metcalfe, the young Liverpudlian singer with The Mysterines who combines her tremendous vocal as well as a song writing credit to True. Andy Fairweather Low adds his distinctive vocals to superfly strutting Testify and Paul’s daughter Leah co-wrote and features on the classic 3 minute pop kitchen sink drama Shades Of Blue which will be the first single taken from the album. Hannah Peel is back in the fray adding her classic string scores to Cobweb Connections and Still Glides The Stream.
Track Listing
Side A
Cosmic Fringes
True
Fat Pop
Shades Of Blue
Glad Times
Cobweb / Connections
Side B
Testify
That Pleasure
Failed
Moving Canvas
In Better Times
Still Glides The Stream
Side C
C1 On Sunset
C2 Old Father Tyme
C3 Moving Canvas
C4 Failed
C5 Village
Side D
D1 More
D2 Testify
D3 Still Glides The Stream
D4 Rockets
D5 Mayfly
Side E
E1 Round The Floor
E2 Serafina
E3 Crowboy
E4 Into The Sea
E5 Pure Sound
Side F
F Fat Mix
