Paul McCartney to release dance album as 'the Fireman'

When Paul McCartney releases a new album next month, he will not be playing the style of music that made him famous. Instead, Sir Paul is returning to a genre he last visited in the late 90s – a dance-music project called the Fireman.

The Fireman's Electric Arguments will be released by One Little Indian on November 13. Once again it pairs Paul McCartney with Youth, the Killing Joke bassist and dance music producer. Although McCartney wrote all the songs, the two share production credits for the album's 13 tracks.

Electric Arguments is the first Fireman album to include vocals – 1993's Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest and 1998's Rushes were both instrumental releases comprised of ambient electronic tracks. But that's not the only change to the Fireman's sound – a studio source described Electric Arguments as "like Arcade Fire meets Led Zeppelin," according to the Telegraph. Or in other words, like Jack White with a glockenspiel.





The opening track, Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight, premiered on BBC Radio 1 last night while Lifelong Passion (Sail Away) was previously released as part of an Adopt-a-Minefield event this June. Each track "has an entirely different personality," according to the official press release, "yet somehow this collection sits together perfectly".

The project only appears slightly more dubious with the news that each of Electric Arguments' 13 tracks were written and recorded in just one day. Though we hope that this pace made for spontaneous sounds, the rapid-fire sessions – spread over the course of a year - are more likely to have made for slapdash, half-arsed tracks. Then again, who are we to tell Paul McCartney how to write a song?


Original article here