Dan McCafferty is credited as saying something like 'First we were heros, then we were dinosuars and now apparently we're legends'. Whatever the truth of that statement they're still growing and doing new stuff - unlike so many bands of their vintage they dont just keep repeating hey-day musical formulas, but they keep pushing their boundaries too. 'Big Dog' is a dynamic slow-fuse opener and this broody atmpshere is picked up again in 'When Jesus came to save the world again', a song about more than the usual lazy theme of girls, cars , etc. Further along Naz show that they havnt lost the ability to knock out a cracking ballad with ' Time and Tide' - a delicate song which possibly speaks more to old gits like me, but is nonetheless about a timeless subject which comes to us all eventually. 'Lifeboat' has some lovely lines about resisting what you're fed by the establishment and 'The Toast'is - in spirit if perhaps not quite delivery - a bit like an English Ramones song after they'd watched some Monty Python. No, really.... 'Butterfly is a sparse but beautiful piano led ballad and the album closer - 'Sleeptalker' is back to stomping classic Naz - cant wait to see this live ! The unplugged second disc is superb and if you were unsure about buying the album then this would definitely tip the scales tp a resounding 'yes'.Although 'Bicycle' is the only big classic here , hearing all five tracks in imaginative acoustic arrangements is a real treat . The late, great Steve Marriott said that you should never do a cover song unless you were going to do it REALLY differently and he was right - and the evidence is here for all to listen to. Anyway, suffice to say that if more established bands did their new albums in this spirit, then classic rock music wouldnt have the jaded reputation that it has outside of those who know that its 'the one true faith' ... :-)Read full review
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