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| From | "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Fleetwood Mac |
| Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:33:29 -0400 |
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Anyone else enjoying the new Fleetwood Mac album?
I'm an unabashed Lindsey Buckingham fan; for me he's up there in whatever pantheon includes Todd Rundgren, Brian Wilson, Andy Partridge. And his output is SO sporadic-- the Buckingham/Nicks album, 5 studio F-Mac (the last in '87), 2 live with them, 3 solo albums, and tithe odd b-side, sound track contribution, etc. Outside of the live album they put out, The Dance, this is his first major release since 1992's Out of the Cradle, and second since 1987's Tango In the Night. So around here its a cause for celebration.
Anyway, Christine McVie has departed the band, and she's missed I think-- some of the best songs of theirs were really Lindsey/Christine collaborations (e.g., "Hold Me", "Love In Store.") But here you get 9 Lindsey songs(!), 9 Stevie songs. And Lindsey's production, engineering, and playing are all over the record; it all has "his" sound. Even the most insipid Stevie Nicks lyric is rendered listenable by tinkling toy piano or speaker-bouncing backing vocals or some other brilliant arrangement and production touch.
Probably the thing I like best about this album is that there appears, with the possible exception of the title track/single "Say You Will", to be no concessions at all to comerciality. Its all just how they sound, with the great rhythm section and Lindsey's ear candy all over the thing. It has way more in common with Out of the Cradle-- or even Tango In the Night-- than with, say, Rumors. And I liked Rumors (eventually). But this is good news.
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