Paolo Nutini - this might surprise you...

lovestrat74

Personally I really like Paolo. Probably the best live male vocal I have seen. Saw this the other night and it blew me away. 

JezWynd

Change of style (at least from what I’ve heard from him). Agree that he’s an incredible vocalist.

lovestrat74

JezWynd said:

Change of style (at least from what I’ve heard from him). Agree that he’s an incredible vocalist.

He would make a great lead man for a rock band. Shades of AC/DC in that song!

darthed1981

He's been a quiet force in the background of music for years now, making mostly pretty decent records.

The one with the Funk My Life up song and "Iron Sky" was brilliant, and his debut remains a good listen.

Zoolooter

That’s great, hearing more than a slither of the Stooges there.

digitalkettle

That was a pretty solid episode of 'Later...', tbf.

Kilgore

I saw it too. Not at all what I was expecting (from my limited knowledge of his music) but I really liked it. 

stratman3142

Yes I was impressed.

ElectricXII

Just caught up with this on iPlayer. Loved it.

oh_pollo

Terrific. He sounds like Alex Harvey.

Jfingers

Zoolooter said:

That’s great, hearing more than a slither of the Stooges there.

I thought of The Stooges too. I've always enjoyed Paolo's stuff but I loved that.

digitalkettle

oh_pollo said:

Terrific. He sounds like Alex Harvey.

I was thinking they should've shanghaied Paolo into The Temperance Movement when it all went pear-shaped with Phil Campbell.

Moe_Zambeek

digitalkettle said:

oh_pollo said:

Terrific. He sounds like Alex Harvey.

I was thinking they should've shanghaied Paolo into The Temperance Movement when it all went pear-shaped with Phil Campbell.

Not a bad idea, but I imagine relative-popularity wise that would be like the tail wagging the dog.

Paolo almost always has a fantastic 'heavier' song on his albums, surrounded by a larger quantity of pop. Iron Sky was really the highlight of his last album for me, I suspect this will be the same on the new one.

digitalkettle

Moe_Zambeek said:

digitalkettle said:

oh_pollo said:

Terrific. He sounds like Alex Harvey.

I was thinking they should've shanghaied Paolo into The Temperance Movement when it all went pear-shaped with Phil Campbell.

Not a bad idea, but I imagine relative-popularity wise that would be like the tail wagging the dog.

Indeed...it was an entirely selfish idea

ICBM

Yes, definitely a bit of a Stooges sound to that- very good.

english_bob

Like it. This sounds like a Krautrock band covering the Rolling Stones for the first two thirds, then suddenly goes full AC/DC. You wouldn't think it would work, but it does.

Mrs_bob tends to like gravelly-sounding only-slightly-uncool singer songwriters (this guy, Jack Savoretti, Ray Lamontagne etc) which means I end up listening to them too. Paolo's been away for a minute (last album was 2014!). It's nice he's back.

McSwaggerty

Aye. Magic.

boogieman

That sounded like a Captain Beefheart number till he let rip. Nice. 

JezWynd

Could it be his year? It's as if a real artist has turned up to show the pop pretenders how it should be done.

english_bob

Picked up his new album last week. After a few listens I quite like it. There's a fair bit of his blue eyed soul stuff there, but it's quite rocky compared to his previous stuff. He does have a cracking voice.

Oddly, lots of the songs sound fairly strongly reminiscent of other artists without ever straying in to actually ripping anyone off.

For instance, here's the opening track:



It's not "Whole Lotta Love" - different rhythm, different tempo, very different approach (no "True Romance" clips in the Led Zep song), but... 

Likewise, there's a song that Mrs_bob refers to as "the Tom Petty one", one that reminds me of a Fleetwood Mac song... All in the same sort of way that the song from Jools Holland sounds like AC/DC.

I mean, it's been around for seventy years. It's hard to listen to rock music and not hear other rock music, I'm just thinking out loud.

Philly_Q

I finally got round to watching that first clip, after it was posted on my birthday two months ago!

I quite like the song.  The vocal performance isn't what I expected - or imagined.  It's very mannered, until he impersonates Bon Scott for the last minute.  I'm not totally convinced, but it's interesting.

That new track @english_bob posted... you mentioned Krautrock earlier, I know very little about Krautrock but this reminds me quite a lot of the last couple of albums from Elder, and I know they have Krautrock influences.