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Memory Almost Full

Jun 13, 2007
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Given Macca’s recent turbulent private life, the fact this album exists at all is cause for celebration. Better still, it’s more tuneful and exuberant than 2005’s underwhelming Nigel Godrich-produced ‘Chaos And Creation In The Backyard’. That’s not to say it’s ‘Revolver’, but at least the Beatle’s playing to his strengths. The breezy, mandolin-driven single ‘Dance Tonight’ and the electronic-tinged nostalgia trip ‘Ever Present Past’ should bring joy to the growing legion of Wings enthusiasts, while the sarcastic grumble of ‘Gratitude’ (hmm, who could this be about then?) shows that for a 64-year-old legend, Macca still hasn’t quite grown old gracefully. Oh, and his bass playing’s still peerless. Not quite double thumbs aloft then, but way fabber than it has any right to be. Alan Woodhouse

6 out of 10

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cesarasrodrigues

Oct 3, 2007

Coffee, bandolins & some nervous chorus

He’s an almost 65 oldman that just spent lots of money to divorce the several years younger wife. He’s author of, at least, twenty of the hundred best songs composed since he’s alive. He have really few contestants (although he never had officially been a candidate) to the coolest guy on the world post, but even so he takes risk of being cool to the youngsters who love the fosforecences of the Klaxonian new rave (and here I’ll not discuss about how rave it is) or the desperate screams Himself used to protagonize almost fourty years ago. He doesn’t need to experiment, but he worked with the last decade Album’s producer on his previous album (the good Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, 2005, awarded with Grammy) – Nigel Goldrich from Radiohead’s OK Computer – and now back to the former producer, David Kahne, and to variate more the compositions. People speculate He is another guy replacing the original one dead and carbonized on a car crash. Of corse this guy is Paul McCartney, that released Memory Almost Full (then suddenly my media player plays Martha my Dear – no, I’m not hearing Memory