‘Carry On The Grudge’ is Jamie Treay’s third album, the
street poet from London mysteriously stopped creating music for five years,
until his new album ‘Carry On The Grudge’ was released. I personally prefer his older stuff, however I
do find this album a massive paradox from his previous work, and I like the
contrast that Jamie has provided by releasing this album… The album was
released on 29th of September in 2014, so as you can imagine after 5
years of no work being produced, fans were obviously thrilled to see that the
Londoner has made a re-appearance with a brand new album! Within this album
Jamie becomes the character’s that he once talked about in his previous albums
which leads to the reason as to why this album is such a gigantic paradox to
his previous work.
The second track on the album is called “Don’t You Find” and
this single was released on the 21st of July, before the album was
released and it is one of my favorite songs off the album. I think that it was
a great song to tease the fans with before the full album was released. The
single introduces itself straight away with the vocals saying:
“Don’t you find some
of the time there is always someone on your mind, that shouldn't be at all in
any place or any kind?”
This attracts your attention straight away, as this line is
simply very relateable. The reason as to
why this single is one of my favorites off the album is because within this song; the instrumental
is much softer and quieter compared to Treay’s voice - in order to allow you to
focus on the lyrics.
This song is one of the most well-known songs off the album alongside
“Zombie” due to the lyrics being very repetitive. The echo’s and backing vocals
reflect the sadness of the song and create a rather gloomy atmosphere. This
album portrays a very dark atmosphere from start to finish; compared to Kings`n’Queens as that album is rather rebellious as Treay loudly voices his opinion and comes across as a
bit of a gob-shite, but I like the contrast between his previous work in Kings`n’Queens
and Panic Prevention to Carry on the Grudge as it shows how much of a versatile artist that Treay can
be.
`Zombie’ has claimed to be the most popular Jamie T song on
the album and perhaps the most notorious and successful out of all of Treay’s
songs? The single was released after “Don’t you find” on the 12th of
August 2014 it starts off slowly similarly to his previous tracks, then the
notorious Jamie T beat hits when the chorus kicks in; with strong guitar and attitude
that Treay shows throughout all of his previous work.
“Cause I’m a sad sad
post-teen could have been a love machine. No dream, come clean walking like a
zombie, like a zombie.”
Then before the last verse, the single is then followed by a
horror theme tune - then on the last verse you hear Treay’s lovely contagious
singing voice again, followed by the catchy chorus line of:
“Walking like a zombie, like a zombie.”
‘The Prophet (explicit)’ – This
is a song which allows you to really get into Jamie’s head as he views all his
prospective of poverty in this song. Again
followed by a catchy chorus:
“I don’t ask the questions, I don’t write the rules. I’m up
for suggestions, I will follow you through; it can’t be any worse than I've been up to.”
My favorite line of the song is:
“I don’t know what it
is but you do it to me, I haven’t cracked a smile since ‘93”
This is because it has endless questions as to why he has
written this line, and it follows with endless answers.
However the main song that I dislike on this album is called 'Peter' I have presumed that Peter is Treay’s evil alter-ego and the song comes across rather psychopathic
and almost schizophrenic.
The schizophrenic opinion comes from the way Treay opens the
song with;
“Sometimes I feel
like there’s someone in my head”
That then goes on to be followed by;
“Sometimes I feel
that he wants me dead.”
Then the chorus consists of;
“Peter doesn’t like my friends. Peter doesn’t like your band;
Peter says you all sound bland. Peter wants to fuck your girl; Peter wants to
fuck the world.”
I didn't realise that Treay had such dark thoughts and as a
fan of his work I must say that this piece is way too dark for my liking, and I really
dislike this track.
'Love Is Only A Heartbeat Away' is another personal favorite
of mine, it enters with a gentle and soft introduction and continues with a melancholic
atmosphere from beginning to end for the rest of the song. Like many of Jamie T’s songs it is shamefully
contagious due to its repetitiveness.
“And he sang love is
only a heartbeat away, better save it for the darkest of your days”
Then on the second chorus it changes gender;
“And she sang love is only a heartbeat away, better save it
for the darkest of your days”
In conclusion; I think that the whole album is full of very
dark songs compared to all of his previous work, but it allows you to
understand the other side of the story.
On the contrary, I really do like this album as you get to see the
softer more emotional side of Treay’s work and every song has been cleverly structured
in so much detail, and even the album has been cleverly structured in order to
create that contrast that Treay was obviously looking for. As he put love is only a heartbeat away after
Peter on the album; one of the softest songs on the album, next to one of the
darkest songs on the entire album. Considering how aesthetically pleasing I
find Jamie T and how big of a fan I am of him and his previous work, I’m not
the biggest fan of this album mainly due to Peter letting it down from my own
personal prospective.
9/10
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