Let's Hear It for the dogs is the tenth studio album by the Scots, which was recorded in Wales and produced by Dave Eringa. The Briton, born in 1971, has already worked with artists such as Kylie Minogue, the Manic Street Preachers or 3 Colours Red. He recently celebrated producers-success with the album Going Back Home by Wilko Johnson (guitarist of Dr. Feelgood) & Roger Daltrey (singer of The Who).
As different as all 'the listed musicians and their genre, so different is the new album Proclaimers. At a music style, the 38 minutes long work does not specify. The 13 songs oscillate between rock'n'roll (the opener You built me up) and Pop (Be with me, with his Beatles-like, Get Back-style similar intro), between beat music (Forever Young), Wave, Funk and Folk. The folk influences are truly marginal. Just because the Proclaimers originate from Scotland does not automatically mean that in every album has stuck Folk
Somehow can be found at the three-minute bite anything in the - can be pressed Radio unit format - now tiresome. Twice is not a piece of this, could have hit potential.
Yet, the album sticks to his way a bit old fashioned to fascinating. It is purely a kind of quality. Not only production technology but also musically and lyrically. So innocent, so gentle, so relaxing. There's nothing hard, nothing Derbes, nothing Rebellious just solid honesty.
The guitars and vocal harmonies rippling away like sprung from the 1960 source. The strings in In my home sound like made for a British comedy in the style of Four Weddings & a Funeral.
The Proclaimers convert with this album on big tracks. The Everly Brothers come around the corner, the Easy Beats sound just by how The Fools from the US and the Beatles (Then again). And then you'll hear more bonds out of the Australian band The Flash & the Pan, the team of Harry Vanda and George Young (The latter, incidentally, one of the older brothers Angus and Malcolm Young of AC / DC).
In short: Let's Hear It for the Dogs is for today's times purebred American, quasi fallen violently out of time, but ensures their old-fashioned in a good mood. No more, no less.
