Let's Change The World : The Last And The Best Album
Let's Change the World With Music is the eighth album by British pop rock band Prefab Sprout
. It contains eleven songs written by singer and model Paddy McAloon, who were released by her record label in 1992. Published in September 2009 by the label Kitchenware Records, Let's Change the World is the debut album from Prefab Sprout to emerge since the release of The Gunman And Other Stories, in 2001.
After the release of Jordan: The Comeback, the previous album, Paddy McAloon spent a year and a half to write and record highly detailed scale models in his studio Andromeda Heights, located in County Durham .
He named his new project "Let's Change the World with Music, named one of the pieces. McAloon presents models of fourteen songs to his label, who hopes the album will be finalized by the group and their official producer, Thomas Dolby, in order to market a new disc of Prefab Sprout in 1993. The record company, however, reject the models, as explained McAloon in an interview broadcast by BBC Radio 2 in September 2009 .
The manager of A & R group suggests that Paddy focuses on one of the many topics discussed in his new songs to make an album in less time and with greater unity of tone. The project "Let's Change the World With Music is set aside and the label chose to edit the first compilation of the group, entitled A Life of Surprises, while McAloon embarks on the implementation of a concept album. Developing the theme song of the Earth, the Story So Far, which tells the story of humankind from its beginnings to modern times, he composed an album of thirty titles. The project was abandoned in turn for Andromedia Heights album, released in 1997.
Let's Change the World With Music is finally released in September 2009, under the leadership of the band's manager, Keith Armstrong. McAloon, who had long since lost interest in these songs, gives his consent after having replayed. The bands are restored by the engineer Richard Whitaker and the disc is mixed and mastered in Scotland by the producer Calum Malcolm. Three original songs do not appear on the disc, whose title song, a duet that McAloon wanted to interpret with the American singer Barbra Streisand.
After the abandonment of Let's Change the World with Music in 1992, some titles that should have been included on the CD were recorded by other artists. God Watch Over You "and" Ride on the album include The Witness Tree by Australian singer Wendy Matthews, released in 1994 .
Upon its release, Let's Change the World With Music is welcomed by the British press. Dan Cairns, Sunday Times, described him as a hard overwhelming beauty ("heartbreakingly good record), skilfully restored by the producer Calum Malcolm, and he was awarded five out of five . At year's end, it appears in "Rock and pop" in the list of the hundred best albums published in 2009 established by critics of the newspaper .
Graeme Thomson, music critic of The Observer newspaper, regretted the delay of seventeen years between registration and publication of record, responsible for its appearance dated, but concedes that the songs are mostly wonderful ("Against all odds, Let's Change the World is frequently glorious. ") . His colleague on the Guardian, Dave Simpson, said that an album whose central theme of the redemptive power of music could be awkward, but the wonder of McAloon for his art is a true listening pleasure ("McAloon's humbled wonderment Has music Makes For An aural Treat. "). According to Simon Price, The Independent, Let's Change the World With Music is a disc lyrical and lush, the idealistic words . For Tom Hocknell the BBC, the disc captures the optimism of the early 1990s, but after a long wait, he now appears as a missed opportunity .
Steve Schnee, of Allmusic wrote that the model produced by McAloon is not a shadow of what it might have become, but is instead one of the most consistent among disks of the career of Prefab Sprout (McAloon's full-formed demo Is Not Just A hint of "what Might Have Been": it's one of the albums include MOST of the band's career. ") . Francois Gorin, the French magazine Telerama , and Per Magnusson, the Swedish daily Aftonbladet [8], give him four out of five stars, the latter holds it in his list of best albums of the year . In the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, Sven Ove Bakke attributed to Let's Change the World with Music Note five out of six , whereas its CONSUR Sigrid Hvidsten named the album in its list of year-end.
by: Laura Steinfield
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