Paul Weller or ‘The Modfather’ as some might say, was the
lead guitarist in the legendary mod-revival British band; The Jam. The Jam is
well-known for many songs such as ; ‘A
town called Malice’, ‘That’s Entertainment’ and ‘English Rose’. However shortly
after the trio separated their own ways in 1982, Weller formed another band
called ‘The Style Council’ which was quite successful, but on the other hand
they followed the roots of The Jam, and therefore went on to break up in 1989.
So in 1991 Weller referred to himself as a solo artist. Saturns Pattern is Weller’s
new album of 2015, it is fully loaded with funky dynamic beats and contagious
rhythms and lyrics.
The first song to open up the album is called ‘White Sky’. White
sky has a rather mysterious-eerie kind of atmosphere towards the beginning of
the song, and it begins to tease you with some drum symbols trembling; then
Weller’s notorious electric guitar starts, shortly accompanied by the
Modfathers rock vocals. This track is a great song to introduce the album; with
its contagious and repetitive chorus' it represents how Weller has still got it,
and he has never lost it.
“Under a white sky, white sky, white sky, white sky, coming
down on me.”
White Sky is also very similar to the fifth track on the
album called ‘Pick it Up’ and the second track called ‘Saturns Pattern’.
The second track on the album is coincidentally called
‘Saturns Pattern’ so evidently this track is to represent the album as a whole.
With a sharp introduction on the keyboards, you can tell this is going to be
one of his typical catchy songs; and it is. This track has a dynamic edge to
the other songs on the album and it also has the infectious lyrics of –
“Get up, in a mind to get up.”
However it is rather similar to some of the other songs on
the album as I have previously mentioned, and have related it to ‘White Sky’
and ‘Pick it Up’.
One of my favourite tracks on the album is actually the
third song called “Going my Way”. This is obviously a love song, which is
slightly different to some of the other songs on the album as it doesn’t have
such a strong rock n roll theme; it is a lot softer.
“You following me? Am
I following you? Don’t care anyway as long as you stay, with me.”
After this line, the tempo starts to gradually increase; then
it fades again and the track repeats the process of increased tempo to fading
it out again. This song of love is also homogeneous to the last track called
‘These City Streets’.
‘Long time’ is the fourth track on the album and the
contrast works well between this and the previous track of ‘Going my Way’ as
that is a lot softer, and this song of Weller’s is definitely one of the strong
rock n roll tracks on the whole album. The song enters with sharp and powerful
vocals of -
“For such a long time I couldn’t find myself, for such a
long time thought I was somebody else.”
Then the title repeats itself many of times within this
short track, leading it to be another one of Weller’s contagious masterpieces.
In conclusion I think this was another exceptional Weller
album, every song is ridiculously contagious due to the repetitive chorus’. It
is worth a listen if you have not already listened to any of Weller’s previous
work or this album, it is a mix of rock n roll and psychedelic sounds -
bringing back the mod revival in little bits. All in all I really enjoyed this
album as I found it rather relaxing, so yeah I would definitely recommend it.
However I do think that some of his previous work off the Stanley Road album
for example, is a lot better than his modern music. Then again, his main hits
were off that album. Even though I think that this album is not his best album;it is
definitely not his worst.
9/10
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