Life's a blast! Top
US producer step out of the control room for latest album of
scorching rock-pop.
Producer of choice for
Weezer, Pink, Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne among others, Butch
Walker proves with his latest record that his songwriting skills are
also up there with best of them. The Spade is a ten-song blast of
feelgood rock, full of good humoured observations about being middle
aged but still rocking. There's also some telling recollections from
his (partly misspent) youth, with references to Bryan Adams, Duran
Duran, Iron Maiden, and bizarrely Frank Poncherello. The songs are
interspersed with snippets of studio banter, and contain lyrics which
show Walker as being as good with words as he is with melodies. A
good story teller like Walker is not the only raconteur on the album,
his friend Patrick Keeler (Yes he of The Raconteurs and The
Greenhornes) is on kick-ass form on drums throughout.
There's no pushing of
musical boundaries, the songs all being in the mould of classic
American guitar rock but they're catchy as hell and literally jump
out the speakers at you. Listening to the album is like meeting up
with a valued and jovial friend down your local pub, it's familiar
but at the same time fun and you know there'll be new stories, laughs
aplenty, and you need its rejuvenating effects.
Click here for Butch
Walker's website.
Click over the jump for a video of the track "Synthesizers".
No comments:
Post a Comment