Firecracker is a straightforward pop song, but none the worse for that. La Cienega just smiled is a beautiful, delicate song, although it's trumped for fragility by the outstanding Harder now that it's over, which I could imagine as an incredible duet with PJ Harvey. If someone could make that happen, I'd be grateful. In my opinion the best song on the album is Nobody Girl, where Adams seems to let go a little bit, which is when he's at his most accomplished. A proper ten minute, sprawling, bluesy, rocky number, with some real passion in the vocals, it always grabbed my attention when it came on. Perhaps the most prolific artist of recent times, Ryan Adams has never been short of an album release. The difficulty with this is that sometimes his albums are a slightly mixed bag. Whilst this is definitely one of his best, there are still a handful tracks that I think it could do without, such as Tina Toledo and Sylvia Plath.
Gold is a
very, very good album on first listen. And on the fifth. By the thirtieth it's
merely a very good album. Maybe
because I knew it so well it became a bit background-y. Whole songs I could
sort of switch off through. Not a bad thing as such, just I found the opposite
with The Streets, where I couldn't not actively listen to it. So, whilst I know that I will revisit this album again on many occasions, I may make liberal use of the skip button when doing so.
Chloe's rating: 9
Chloe's favourite track: 13. Harder now that it's over
Olly's rating: 7
Olly's favourite track: 8. Nobody Girl
We've got 68. If you can Believe your Eyes and Ears by the Mamas and the Papas next week. All the leaves are brown...
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