ripples

howdy pop pickers

and so a fourth single is ours, look you see. it is, at time of writing, about a week to go before Ian Brown's new solo album Ripples is released, which made it a bit of a surprise that another track of it has been "dropped" by the artist. hey ho, here, have my 99p for the digital download that masquerades as a "single". 

how does it sound? you are asking me to give an unbiased, objective review of an Ian Brown release, are you? brave. quite smart it is, or if you like proper smart. 

i am not 100% sure how best to describe the tune accurately, but let me give it a go. after some sort of whispered quasi faux false start some splendid drums and ace bass kick in, all with a sound reminiscent of, say, Can't See Me off of Unfinished Monkey Business, with a trifle of a hint of Fool's Gold for good measure. and why not, or why wouldn't you, if you were Ian Brown. 

the song moves on quite nicely from there, with Ian seemingly taking one of them wooden xylophone contraptions and testing the patience of it with a massive funkadelic twatting stick. what sounds like it could well be a kazoo solo rounds it all off. 

lyrically no, there are no references to "roses" or "stone" in this song, unlike singles two (Black Roses) and three (From Chaos To Harmony) what got released. so not really much in the way of possibly thinly veiled allusions or statements. just funkadelic funk. 

that's my last ten digital purchases, then. Ian Brown would appear to take up just south of 50% of them. no, hang on, if he is four of then ten then, should my maths not fail me, he is responsible for 40% of the last ten. and why not. 

whereas i am quietly comfortable in saying that Black Roses is my favourite 25% of the four singles release thus far, all of it is sounding boss. yes, i am rather jolly ho excited for this release, to be sure. just as long as HMV remains in business for a week or so i shall be there, buying it, on the day it is released to us all. 

anyway, i am back off to the funk. dig what you dig, man. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!