justin currie - What Is Love For (2007)

Tracklist

01. What Is Love For?
02. Not so Sentimental Now
03. Walking Through You
04. Something in That Mess
05. If I Ever Loved You
06. Only Love
07. Gold Dust
08. Out of My Control
09. Where Did I Go?
10. Still in Love
11. No, Surrender
12. In the Rain

Saying Currie knows how to craft a song is a bit like saying Caravaggio could paint, but the sideburned Scot s solo debut maybe prove to be his masterwork. It s pointed, harp-decorated title track includes a stunning modulation, while the drifting, harmony-rich Walking Through You is the kind of affectingly winsome nugget you d hear everywhere were The Eagles to record it. Lyrically, the heart s stoicism (If I Ever Loved You) and capacity for deceit (Where Did I Go?) are brilliantly dissected, Currie occasionally sliding into an easy falsetto and spitting tumbling bile-infused verses on epic closer No Surrender. The latter is magnificently ambitious, our host thumbing a whole Rolodex of modern-world ills as electric piano and emotive strings swells build drama. Touchstones here, Currie has said, included Plastic Ono Band and Nina Simone and Piano. Such classic references have bred near-classic results.

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