ARTiST: Grand Drive
TiTLE: Everyone
LABEL: Loose Music
GENRE: Rock
TiME: 51:44 min
SiZE: 70,5 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jul-20-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jul-23-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. The Skin You're Living In 03:33
02. Talking In Your Sleep 04:21
03. I'm An Echo 04:56
04. The End Of Duty 04:38
05. Birdsong 04:23
06. Plain Sailing 04:46
07. Bright Eyed 04:22
08. Knives And Forks 03:33
09. Far From Home 04:48
10. What You Know 05:12
11. Be Lucky 04:17
12. On And On 02:55
Release Notes:
Self-produced in their own south London studio
('The Premise'), Grand Drive's fifth album
'Everyone' comes 10 years after their debut single
Tell It Like It Is and marks the return of brothers
Danny and Julian Wilson to Loose Music: the label
that yielded their first LPs Road Music and True
Love And High Adventure ("the first stone-cold
classic of the 21st Century", raved Sleazenation) -
records recently cited by Romeo Stodart as an
influence on The Magic Numbers.
The Wilson brothers kept busy in their time away
from Loose. A major label deal with BMG saw the
re-release of the two aforementioned titles plus two
more acclaimed albums (See The Morning In and The
Lights In This Town Are Too Many To Count), several
'A' list singles courtesy of BBC Radio 2, tours of
the USA and Europe and the means to set up their own
studio. In addition Julian has toured the world
playing keyboards for Damien Dempsey and has
successfully launched the Wonky Atlas imprint, while
Danny recently released his own solo set The Famous
Mad Mile on French imprint Fargo, which has seen him
touring throughout Europe and as far afield as
Australia.
By returning to their indie roots you could say that
Grand Drive have come a full circle. Typically,
however, the band are in no way bitter or
disillusioned about their time with one of the
world's biggest labels.
"Our major label experience wasn't all bad really"
says Julian. "On the plus side, when you're the
smallest fish in the big pond, you can get on mostly
with building your own little whatever it is fish
build, so we've come out of it very proud of the
music we made. On the downside, it could be very
frustrating to not be valued, outside of a couple of
people, within your own label. It's very hard to get
the wider world to notice you when you can't even
get the first and second floor to pay attention."
Alongside long-time associate Ed Balch, Danny and
Julian - with a little bit of help from their
friends (notably Pete Wareham of Acoustic Ladyland
who adds the sublime saxophone part to End Of Duty)
- have now produced an album that contains all the
classic Grand Drive trademarks, namely brilliant,
evocative songwriting that's rich in harmony and
heavy in soul, played with an insistent
determination to stay true to themselves.
"Like all our albums it's sort of about us, as we
are now," notes Julian. "We've never 'made it' in
any great way, with everything that goes with that,
so we've always lived very regular lives, and I
think our songs are still very real and true to
that. We're not looking in at it. But we've also got
the sort of attitude that means we feel lucky with
what we've achieved through our music, we're totally
excited by it, by new songs and the whole process.
The result has always been a kind of 'positive
realism', and I hope it always will be. Having said
that, we're not snobs, we'd never turn our noses up
at a little bit of a hit."
A little bit of a hit? Who knows?
Everyone.