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Paul Weller: Fat Pop (Volume 1) review – more earnest than exciting


It’s not without its merits. On the taut, post-punk opener Cosmic Fringes, he sounds as if he’s channelling Baxter Dury’s sprechgesang with equal parts swagger and menace. The question-and-answer nature of the title track’s lyrics recall Sammy Davis Jr’s The Candy Man, which is rather at odds with the song’s spacey dub. True, meanwhile, is route-one powerpop, and the closing Still Glides the Stream is a classy slice of stately, reflective chamber pop. Elsewhere, though, too much politely slips beneath the radar: Cobweb/Connections and Shades of Blue are perfectly decent songs, but they’re also unspectacular. Weller seems incapable of releasing a downright bad album at the moment, but this isn’t one of his best. ....

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