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The Slow Wonder
[Matador/Beggars Banquet]
A.C. Newman, more known as Carl Newman, usually works in the Canadian band The New Pornographers. For his first solo album, he decided to compose a very 60s marked pop and he completely assumes it! We can feel here the crushing influences of this genre's big names, such as the Beach Boys and the Beatles, the Kinks and the Zombies. Although they're a bit out-of-date, the melodies of "The Slow Wonder" are composed with finesse and are finally more convincing than the albums he made with his band. As many songwriters in the pop history, A.C. Newman creates his songs with much melodic skills and grace, and it works. Short (only half an hour long), but efficient, "The Slow Wonder" proves that it's possible to do something new with old materials. When you know that the recording of this album was subsidized by a Canadian allowance, you can only but think that this wasn't a waste of the tax payers' money!
Laure Cornaire |
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