Paul McCartney + Youth = Fireman!
Featuring "Sing The Changes" & "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight"!!
Electric Arguments is the third studio album from Fireman and it's not the album people might expect from the mysterious duo: Paul McCartney + Youth = The Fireman.
Electric Arguments is an eclectic and varied album consisting of thirteen tracks recorded in thirteen days. Each track was written and recorded in the space of one day with Fireman Paul playing all instruments bar one track, which Fireman Youth plays guitar on. The Fireman went into the studio with no plan or clear direction of how they wanted the album to sound. The project took a life of it's own and the results will surprise anyone expecting to hear the previous sound of the band.
The album's opener 'Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight' is classic rock and an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff with loud drums and soaring vocals, it's like nothing The Fireman have ever done before. The second track, the acoustic driven "Two Magpies" immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song "Sing the Changes", a euphoric upbeat song with an instantly memorable melody. Electric Arguments continues in this fashion, keeping the listener intrigued as to where The Fireman will take them next. Each album track has an entirely different personality, yet somehow this collection sits together perfectly. Other standout tracks include "Light From Your Lighthouse", "Sun Is Shining" and "Dance 'Til We're High", all in keeping with the genre-hopping spirit of the first two The Fireman albums. From listening to the album it's clear that Paul McCartney is still interested in pure musical possibilities. This is an album with something for everyone. Made with no record company restraints or a set release date to work to, Electric Arguments was made with complete artistic and creative freedom.
"Ambient dreams in rainbow arches describe the circles of The Fireman", is how the duo of McCartney & Youth described their music in a rare interview around the release of their previous album "Rushes" in 1998. Their first album "Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest", released in 1993, was a solid ambient dance album heavy on electronics. Around this time the identity of The Fireman was unknown until the press exposed the duo as none other than Paul McCartney and Youth. The now defunct music bible Melody Maker heaped praise on the project, "Paul McCartney has discovered dance music - the results are staggeringly brilliant. They (the Fireman) take a melody and, with dexterous genre-hopping through ambient, trance and house, evolve a number of breathtaking variations."
"Vamping, Zeppelin-esque" - Pitchfork
"Longtime fans of the fireman should notice: this is the first release with upfront vocals." - Stereogum
"A pure listening pleasure with a great sense of spontaneity and musical imagination." - Daily Telegraph
"Paul McCartney lets it rip" - Idolator
Features:
• CD
Selections:
1. Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight
2. Two Magpies
3. Sing the Changes
4. Travelling Light
5. Highway
6. Light From Your Lighthouse
7. Sun Is Shining
8. Dance 'Til We're High
9. Lifelong Passion
10. Is This Love?
11. Lovers In A Dream
12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now
13. Don't Stop Running
Featuring "Sing The Changes" & "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight"!!
Electric Arguments is the third studio album from Fireman and it's not the album people might expect from the mysterious duo: Paul McCartney + Youth = The Fireman.
Electric Arguments is an eclectic and varied album consisting of thirteen tracks recorded in thirteen days. Each track was written and recorded in the space of one day with Fireman Paul playing all instruments bar one track, which Fireman Youth plays guitar on. The Fireman went into the studio with no plan or clear direction of how they wanted the album to sound. The project took a life of it's own and the results will surprise anyone expecting to hear the previous sound of the band.
The album's opener 'Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight' is classic rock and an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff with loud drums and soaring vocals, it's like nothing The Fireman have ever done before. The second track, the acoustic driven "Two Magpies" immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song "Sing the Changes", a euphoric upbeat song with an instantly memorable melody. Electric Arguments continues in this fashion, keeping the listener intrigued as to where The Fireman will take them next. Each album track has an entirely different personality, yet somehow this collection sits together perfectly. Other standout tracks include "Light From Your Lighthouse", "Sun Is Shining" and "Dance 'Til We're High", all in keeping with the genre-hopping spirit of the first two The Fireman albums. From listening to the album it's clear that Paul McCartney is still interested in pure musical possibilities. This is an album with something for everyone. Made with no record company restraints or a set release date to work to, Electric Arguments was made with complete artistic and creative freedom.
"Ambient dreams in rainbow arches describe the circles of The Fireman", is how the duo of McCartney & Youth described their music in a rare interview around the release of their previous album "Rushes" in 1998. Their first album "Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest", released in 1993, was a solid ambient dance album heavy on electronics. Around this time the identity of The Fireman was unknown until the press exposed the duo as none other than Paul McCartney and Youth. The now defunct music bible Melody Maker heaped praise on the project, "Paul McCartney has discovered dance music - the results are staggeringly brilliant. They (the Fireman) take a melody and, with dexterous genre-hopping through ambient, trance and house, evolve a number of breathtaking variations."
"Vamping, Zeppelin-esque" - Pitchfork
"Longtime fans of the fireman should notice: this is the first release with upfront vocals." - Stereogum
"A pure listening pleasure with a great sense of spontaneity and musical imagination." - Daily Telegraph
"Paul McCartney lets it rip" - Idolator
Features:
• CD
Selections:
1. Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight
2. Two Magpies
3. Sing the Changes
4. Travelling Light
5. Highway
6. Light From Your Lighthouse
7. Sun Is Shining
8. Dance 'Til We're High
9. Lifelong Passion
10. Is This Love?
11. Lovers In A Dream
12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now
13. Don't Stop Running
