- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '12.9.25.'
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Boogie Woogie is the latest album by Colne's finest indie rock band Milltown Brothers, apparently the albums title is exactly what Barney Williams has tattooed on his bum! He is joined on the album by Matt and Simon Nelson, James Fraser and Nian Brindle the bands classic line-up. The album was recorded at Groove Studios in Burnley with Chris Lewis engineering it. For much of this album they sound vastly different to how I remember them back in the early 90's when I saw them live a few times.
The album opens with Bring It On a song that to start with has very little boogie and even less Woogie, but it does have a country-tinged folk feel, for a song encouraging us all to seize the day and to get the stars to align for us. Eventually the piano comes to the fore with a very Chicago boogie blues style, almost at odds with the other instrumentation even as the guitars soar away.
Time To Move On is down at heel thoughts of someone living a hermetic life in a forest, who feels he needs move on, urged by the mandolins to get back on the road. Grab The Sun is upbeat urging us all to smile and have a positive attitude, this has a gentle groove and more of the delightful piano working against the mandolins.
Mother's Cooking is the song that most sounds like I remember the Milltown Brothers sounding back in the 90's, this is a good soaring indie rock song in praise of someone who makes them smile a lot as everything the make tastes just like your Mothers Cooking. Hilo they are Yo Yo's again switching between the soaring highs and the deepest of lows of country-tinged indie ruminations with a slow building guitar line.
And She Loves You New is for a girlfriend who stays over, every once in a while, every time before she leaves you feel like you've fallen in love again, with all the devastation of her departure, she of course relishes the effect this has on you.
Fool (Too Much In Love With The World) you haven't noticed it slipping into a hellscape, that needs positive drumming and a good chugging rhythm to show you the errors of your optimistic outlook.
Golden Key has a laid-back feel for thoughts about what direction your life is taking and how to positively influence your own future.
Again & Again rails against some of modern life's ways of making things ever blander, the algorithm's ruling our lives with guitars soaring over laid-back drumming.
Your World Is Changing has the tide gently coming in, with sun dappled guitar adding to the reflective lyrics hinting at just how much the world has changed since the bands 90's heyday, they hope everything will be alright, despite where things are headed.
The album closes with the anthemic Harbour Town that is full of rueful reflections for a dying Harbour Town that's lost all its industry and is just left with Stag and hen do's, drunken brawls and not much else. Can you sing Milltown Brothers songs at the local karaoke bars, they can but dream, but one thing's for certain, the bands fans will all sing along to this song live, before the swaggering guitar freak out ends the album.
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