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Paul Weller
Wild Wood [Deluxe edition]
(Island, 2007)
Goodbye Carnaby Street; hello birds, hello trees: the Modfather gets his head together in the country.
Perched between the flute-laden funkiness of his self-titled solo debut and the route-one rock retrenchment of Stanley Road, Wild Wood remains Paul Weller’s most exquisitely balanced album, with soul stirrings, pastoral folk-rock vibes and stinging Revolver guitars dissolving into an elegant and exciting sonic hybrid. Meanwhile, Weller’s in a conflicted “who am I?” phase, and his music benefits from the self-analysis (Has My Fire Really Gone Out?, All The Pictures On The Wall) and vulnerability (Wild Wood) that would ebb away with his Britpop-era rehabilitation. As this illuminating diversion into demos (more Paul Weller than Wildwood in their tadpole phase) and contemporaneous sessions reveals, Weller was calling a truce with the hippies he’d once derided, and sensitive, alternate versions of Neil Young’s Ohio and Tim Hardin’s Black Sheep Boy are the bonus blessings. One of the great British rock albums just got better.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:32 AM GMT 19/01/2009
Further Listening
Paul Weller – Paul Weller (Go! Discs, 1992)
Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die (Island, 1970)
Tim Hardin – Tim Hardin 2 (Verve, 1967)
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