Dexys Midnight Runners have released a new album with the simple title LOVE. German Musikexpress acknowledges in its review that naming an album Love seems at first glance primarily redundant — love has been sung about many times throughout the history of popular music. Musikexpress ↗
However, according to the reviewer, one only needs to look at Kevin Rowland's life and career and listen to the songs he wrote for the album. Perhaps one needs to be seventy-two years old like Rowland and spend one's entire life struggling with mental health issues, with a troubled relationship to one's father, and with the feeling that you don't deserve success, in order to arrive at the wisdom to write and sing so movingly a song like You've Got The Love. Musikexpress ↗
For three minutes, it essentially repeats a single verse "You've got the love that I need," the theme is reduced to the bare essentials — a soul mantra that will melt even the hardest heart. Musikexpress ↗
In the song Once A Man, Twice A Child, which is a musical counterpart to the recently published autobiography Bless My Father, Rowland comes to terms with his deceased father, whose approval he sought in vain for years. The song You're Alright celebrates love for oneself, Old Love befriends one's own aging, and even the failed relationship ends with the promise I'll Always Love You. Musikexpress ↗
The sound, according to the review, embraces like only old friends can: strings give their blessing, organ soothes the soul, and Rowland sings like a graying god in his glory. LOVE is a late work that Rowland and his listeners have long been waiting for. Musikexpress ↗
Dexys Midnight Runners are known to the widest audience thanks to the song Come On Eileen from 1982; you can find its lyrics on SuperMusic.cz.
Illustration photo: Egghead06 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Kevin Rowland is 72 years old and recorded an album about love. Dexys Midnight Runners released LOVE
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