REVIEW OF THE NEW JAMES ALBUM ” ALL THE COLOURS OF YOU”

 

 

 

Out on 4th June 2021 across all formats PRE ORDER HERE.

 

James need no introduction and so it follows, neither does their music. They are easily recognisable yet they have a knack of wearing different musical clothing every time they bring us something new and this offering entitled ‘All the colours of you’ bears witness to this with bells on.

 

 

Icons and stalwarts of the British music scene, they have again given us tracks of envy and brilliance that quite obviously were written during lockdown and covid, embracing all that we ourselves endured and are still enduring. Talk of dying opens the album and continues its metaphorical journey with references to cages, escape and ventilators.

Electronic in its very structure, this album still carries that essence of James and vocally Tim Booth still embodies the recognisable voice of the band, emotional, distinguished and unfaltering.

 

 

There is no disguising the darkness within this collection, but it feels uplifting and brave, careful and deliberate and although the subject matter has touched all of us in ways we could never have imagined the foot tapping I still experienced when listening to these songs gave me hope and a wry smile I’m still wearing.

 

7.5/10

Review by Lloyd Wakeling

 
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