Alfie-A Word In Your Ear-CD-FLAC-2002-FORSAKEN

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Artist : Alfie
Album : A Word In Your Ear Label : XL Recordings Genre : Alternative Source : CD Street Date : 2002-04-16 Quality : 916 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Size : 293.74 MB
Time : 42:51 min Url : http://www.alfie-uk.com

1. A Word In Your Ear 4:17 2. Cloudy Lemonade 4:18 3. Bends For 72 Miles 3:30 4. Halfway Home 4:14 5. Not Half 3:01 6. The Reverse Midas Touch 3:57 7. Summer Lanes 4:36 8. Me and Mine 4:10 9. Rain, Heaven, Hail 6:31 10. The Lighthouse Keeper 4:17

A Word in Your Ear continues the rolling pastoral lilt of If You
Happy With You Need Do Nothing, but Alfies first album of
entirely new material isnt as cohesive as their EP collection.
They still sound like one of the few bands of their generation
who might pick up the pieces left behind by the Stone Roses or
the Las, but the style-surfing and polished edges at work here
make for at least a half-step in the wrong direction. Three of
the albums first four songs are true charmers. On these tracks,
its evident that the U.K. press has vocalist Lee Gorton pegged
correctly as the heir apparent to Ian Brown and Tim Burgess. The
pristine, elegant “A Word in Your Ear,” “Cloudy Lemonade,”
“Halfway Home,” and “Summer Lanes” see him crooning and sneering
with ease and confidence. His bandmates keep pace on these
highlights, matching newly crowned folk-rock gods Gorkys Zygotic
Mynci in subtlety and texture. But elsewhere theres mild trouble
brewing: “Not Half” is a lapse into the Paul
McCartney-hero-worship territory of Ben & Jason, “Bends for 72
Miles” and “Rain Heaven Hail” rely on atmosphere instead of
songwriting prowess as they dip into the overly ornamental realm
of the Elephant 6 collective, and “The Lighthouse Keeper” grasps
for areas so coy they might be even out of reach for the
Clientele. A Word in Your Ear definitely has as it moments, and
one would guess that a number of its songs could do well as
singles, especially since they seem overproduced in such a way as
to be as radio-friendly as possible. But Alfie will have to
continue to seek their own muse and shy away from accessibility
if they want to join the ranks of classic Manchester bands of
days gone past.
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