Prefab Sprout – Let’s Change The World With Music (2009)

Im September soll  nach langer langer Zeit auch ein neues Prefab Sprout Album folgen.  Zu hören gibts im Netz noch nichts,  jedoch vermeldet www.prefabsprout.net folgendes zum neuen Album:

Let’s Change The World With Music’ was written and produced by Paddy McAloon at Andromeda Heights and mixed in Scotland by Calum Malcolm. The record kicks off with the hip-hop influenced hook-laden piano led ‘Let There Be Music’, which sets the tone for the rest of the record. 

Paddy began work on ‘Let’s Change The World With Music’ in 1992, as the follow-up to ‘Jordan: The Comeback’. 17 years later, Paddy returns to these songs, some of his personal favourite compositions.

 

The 11 tracks are rejoiceful and uplifting, striking an endearingly familiar chord, all the while sounding fresh and timeless. Highlights are aplenty and include the celestial ‘Ride’, the jazzy sway of ‘I Love Music’ and the melancholic ‘Sweet Gospel Music’.

 

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In terms of what it sounds like, I’d say it falls pretty neatly between ‘Jordan’ and ‘Andromeda’, which of course makes sense as these are the original recordings Paddy made (alone) of these songs, dating back to 1992: they have not been re-recorded, but have been „baked in the oven“, as Paddy put it, by Calum Malcolm. It sounds finished, though. Definitely a proper, coherent and thematically unified album.

 

The sound is pretty synthetic (not a lot of ‘natural’ band sounds, so probably closer to ‘Andromeda’ than ‘Jordan’) but the songs by and large are wonderful.

 

 Cover und Tracklist:

1. Let There Be Music

2. Ride

3. I Love Music

4. God Watch Over You

5. Music Is A Princess

6. Earth: The Story So Far

7. Last Of The Great Romantics

8. Falling In Love

9. Sweet Gospel Music

10. Meet The New Mozart

11. Angel Of Love