There was a time when The Charlatans were counted among my favorite bands. I was mad fer Madchester and wasn't ashamed to admit it. I even stuck by them after the tragic loss of keyboardist Rob Collins forced them to drop the psychedelia and delve into britpop.
Now twenty years on from Some Friendly
, Tim Burgess and the lads are back with their 11th studio album, Who We Touch.It's not a bad record by any means, it just sounds like a band who are out of touch and out of ideas.
Beginning with 2001's electro-soul excursion, Wonderland
, The Charlatans have been stylistically all over the map. That album actually worked, but since then they've churned out a succession of disappointments. Who We Touch is a "back to basics" album, but even so it can't recapture what made The Charlatans great. Lead single "Love Is Ending" is the closest they come to sounding like themselves:Love Is Ending - The Charlatans by oldwaver
Makes me long for the days of Hammond organ solos...
RIP, Rob.
2 comments:
Some Friendly was fantastic, but for some reason I really loved Between 10th and 11th. Listened to that disc over and over, loved every single song.
http://www.nme.com/news/the-charlatans/53107
Drummer Jon Brookes collapsed at a show in Philadelphia last week and has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Our thoughts go out to Brookes and his family.
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