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Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (2005)
Artist: Paul McCartney Album: Chaos and
Creation in the Backyard Released: 2005 Source: EMI records
Genre: Pop/Rock Format: eac.ape.291mb
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Quiet though it may be, Paul
McCartney experienced something of a late-career renaissance with the
release of his 1997 album Flaming Pie. With that record, he shook off
years of coyness and half-baked ideas and delivered an album that, for
whatever its slight flaws, was both ambitious and cohesive, and it
started a streak that continued through the driving rock & roll
album Run Devil Run and its 2001 follow-up, Driving Rain. For Chaos and
Creation in the Backyard, the follow-up to that record, McCartney tried a
different tactic, returning to the one-man band aesthetic of his debut
album, McCartney, its latter-day sequel, McCartney II, and, to a lesser
extent, the home-spun second album, Ram. Apart from a guitar part or
two, a couple of drum tracks, and, of course, the strings and horns that
pop up now and again, McCartney played everything here, from the
guitars and keyboards down to the bass and drums. The difference here is
that instead of producing the record by himself, McCartney brought in
alt-rock auteur Nigel Godrich, best known as the producer behind
Radiohead's OK Computer and Beck's Mutations, as well as being the only
producer responsible for a streamlined Pavement record. Godrich has a
gift for making messy or difficult music sound simple, logical, and
clean, and he has that same effect on Chaos and Creation, removing the
obvious rough edges and home-spun charm that characterized Macca's
previous one-man affairs. Consequently, Chaos sounds as polished as a
normal McCartney album, as polished as Driving Rain, but the process of
its creation and recording does make this a very different album from
not just its predecessor, but from most of McCartney's solo albums. It's
quiet and meditative, not without its share of eccentricities, nor
without its share of sprightly tunes — certainly, the opener, "Fine
Line," is a propulsive, hooky song that burrows into your head after
just one spin and sounds like a tune you've known all your life, and
"Promise to You Girl" also zips along nicely — but the overall feel of
the record is one that's reflective and ruminative, not messy or silly.
Or whimsical or treacly, for that matter, since the combination of
introspective ballads and intricately detailed but not overly fussy or
polished production means that Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is a
rare thing indeed: a McCartney album that's devoid of cuteness or easy
sentiment. Which doesn't mean that it's somber or lacking in romantic
material — Paul loves his love songs, after all — but the tone and
timbre of the album is so simple, stripped-down, and sincere that all
the music resonates a little deeper and feels a little more heartfelt.
If there are no outright knockouts here, there are no weak spots,
either, and if the album doesn't have the sprawl and quirks or overt
humor of his classic solo albums from Ram through Tug of War, that's OK,
because Chaos and Creation in the Backyard offers something different:
not only is Paul in an unusually reflective mode, but he's made a lean,
cohesive record that holds together better than his previous latter-day
high-water mark, Flaming Pie — which is unusual, since McCartney albums
rarely, if ever, come without spots of filler. The quiet nature of Chaos
and Creation may mean that some listeners will pass it over quickly,
since it's a grower, but spend some time with the record and it becomes
clear that McCartney is far from spent as either a songwriter or
record-maker and, in many ways, continues to make some of the best music
of his solo career.
1 Fine Line McCartney 3:05 2 How
Kind of You McCartney 4:47 3 Jenny Wren McCartney 3:46 4 At
the Mercy McCartney 2:37 5 Friends to Go McCartney 2:43 6
English Tea McCartney 2:12 7 Too Much Rain McCartney 3:24 8 A
Certain Softness McCartney 2:41 9 Riding to Vanity Fair McCartney
5:06 10 Follow Me McCartney 2:31 11 Promise to You Girl
McCartney 3:09 12 This Never Happened Before McCartney 3:24 13
Anyway McCartney 7:22
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