Keep it Burning was meant to be released on 12th December last year to celebrate 20 years since The Plastic Pals got together in Stockholm, this is the bands fourth album and was produced in conjunction with Johnathan Segel and like always The Plastic Pals are Hakan Hawk Soold, Olov Oqvist, Bengt Alm and Anders Sahlin with special guest appearances from Chris Cacavas, Francesco Bonfiglio, Stiv Canterelli and Martin Ek. The album feels like a good evolution in the bands sound over the last 20 years.
The album opens with Saturday Night And Sunday Morning full of hazy memories of what happened last night, lots of drinks and carousing to paisley inflected indie pop, reflecting on how much time you spend during the working week dreaming of living for that weekend release.
Flames Of Fate is the divorce demands writ large, despair at what went wrong and why your marriage spilt asunder, Johnathan Segal's violin giving this a Silo's edge, to this sophisticated Paisley break up song.
The Blue Train evokes memoires of The band and wonders how you made the wonderful music you did while drifting down that crazy river, the sadness that you're no longer making spectral music one organ part at a time.
Lost In Translation the different languages we speak to each other as lovers, friends, colleagues, how wires get crossed, untangling them slowly like the central guitar motif that repeats through this song of despair for loves worst trickery.
Get To The Point the time for nostalgia is over, no matter how many songs they quote in this song, you need to look forwards not backwards if you want to Get To The Point. Keep it Burning keep on chasing your dreams, otherwise they will never become reality, how does it feel to keep searching, playing all over the world, this is full of memories of a US Tour, this would be the lighters in the air moment, although Phone Lights in the air is the safer option, while swaying to the Crazy Horse guitar solo.
The Social Loner is an anthem for all those music geeks you see at gigs, who talk about the scene etc, but often just want to be left alone with their beer to listen to the music, despite knowing everyone on the scene, this has a western soundtrack feel, like you should be riding through Gamla Stan on your trusty steed.
Decisions goes a little bit Green On Red meets Television for this song figuring out if you're falling in love or not. Will you let him stay or kick him back to the road again, Love may well intervene once again.
A Sliver Of Hope that you'll be given a chance to declare your love, if you can just stay the night, allow him that Sliver Of Hope to tell you all about the records he owns by The Slivers Of Hope, mentioning how that bands keyboardist is a personal friend.
Keep An Eye On The Door make sure you know who is coming in, in case you still owe them for stealing the music they made, this song pays its debts to anyone who ever heard a Song For The Dreamers and had a fire lit under them, making achingly familiar songs, you want to be able to singalong with from the first time you hear them.
The Hawk Moth is on the rollercoaster of life, all the ups and downs that need healing one guitar solo at a time. The album closes with Love's Not The Answer that has downhearted reflections from a year's seclusion in Paris, singing out of tune trying to get your world back together again one reworked Dylan lyric at a time.
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