The Emperor's New Clothes

For those who find my review is too long, the short version: McCartney has launched a mediocre good album, which is not bad, but also not really good, that sounds modern (although McCartney course always appreciated experiments, think of "Press to play ", to" Ou est le soleil ", to" Electric Arguments "or on the last piece on Chaos and Creation - but let's face it, they were all weak things), perhaps first gewöhnugsbedürftig, but not really brave. The songs are in fact for the most part, when they would be "naked" hear typical McCartney pieces, how she has heard in the last 20 years now a hundred times, the "off the ground" -Sachen not dissimilar. "New" is that many producers have the pieces then decked powerful, what is different well done. One can listen to the album good, it rocks, it has ballads, it plays with computers and trip-hop, unfortunately it remains of the songs here often boring overall despite all bemühter variety, some songs are quite good. But a masterpiece?

In his heartwarming Foreword McCartney indicated because even doubts about whether it was right to deal with four different producers for his new album, including the sons of producer legends George Martin and Glyn Johns, as usual wipes McCartney but all doubts aside and talk again times of how easy everything was. But the album that came out, then not quite so homogeneous and great become, as he would like.
In any case, you can tell by McCartney, how much he would like to be on the cutting edge. Managed something only conditionally.
The first piece begins unusual rocks loose and vaguely reminiscent of stoner rock (well), but certainly is not the first "hard" piece that wrote McCartney (Helter Skelter; Rockshow etc), removed it still reminds Helen Wheels, a its weaker Wings pieces. "Save us" is very just, but okay. Here are a few pieces that are all ok, "On my way to work" for example is a lalala-song, as it has already written a hundred McCartney, sound in new dress. After an interesting break.
In "Early Days" McCartney treated once again his old trauma. Only he knew how it was, because he's been there. The others did not know "who did this and who did that." So he can say that he would have Lennon must always help when composing in his biography. Unfortunately, his performance no longer contradict, Lennon and Harrison are no longer alive. The hu-hu-background vocals comes a familiar (Goodbye Blue Sky by Pink Floyd?) Ironically, the title track "New" sound on ehersten by the Beatles, however, if one takes away the ascended sound layers, again there is little.
A first bigger break happened at "Appreciate" that is reminiscent of Massive Attack or Portishead and probably would have been better off on one of his Fireman projects. Especially Giles Martin, who has perpetrated the hideous "Love" is in charge of the new, modern sound McCartney, he has missed the new McCartney gown, but it's a bit like the emperor's new clothes. In "Looking at her," gives much "programming" and too much fuss. Here McCartney is always best if he just makes handmade music, as in the wonderful hidden track, alone at the piano, or even to "Get me out of here", which confirms the suspicion that McCartney is necessarily a bit to the zeitgeist wants to attach, in this case to Mumford and Sons. Sounds a bit like "Come on into my kitchen." Pretty awful to my taste are the owl-hu-hu / Oho-ho-ho-choirs (Everybody out there), as they are known by all the bearded folkies currently in. Ethan Johns was in charge of folky stuff. In "I can bet" one wonders why McCartney has no equal invited Jeff Lynne. The piece, which sounds the least by McCartney, is "Road", which, as well as track 1 and 4, written with Paul Epworth together. "Turned out" begins like a Wings-piece, but overall took me many of the songs from their structure at the time of "Flowers in the Dirt" and "Off the Ground", a rather weak album in my opinion, is reminiscent.

That the CD after the Beatles sound like macher location is alleged, I can not sign. Also really bold innovations, as was the case McCartney II, one searches in vain. Creeps me the feeling that a certain lack of imagination and repetition through the modern production, by the sound should be veiled (old wine in new bottles). Nevertheless, overall not a bad album, which certainly can grow. Nevertheless, the recent works liked "Chaos and Creation" clearly better. McCartney will not worry the criticism because he seems quite taken by themselves, which can be read again and again to the lyrics ("Listen to me!"; "I Know What It's Like", etc.)
So, the emperor's new clothes: all applaud (5 star reviews) the allegedly new guise, but actually ....