A song dedicated to Morrissey (“I'm a bit like you, but I'm worth much less”), an already well-known opening piece with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath and a confession: “It's all good until the drugs stop working”.
Robbie Williams made a surprise release Britpop. The album was initially scheduled for September, it was then postponed to October and postponed again so as not to overlap the release with that of The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift, which attracted attention and ratings. The scheduled release date was February 6th and instead Williams released it tonight.
The reason? It's probably a good week to release an album in the UK and hope to go to number one in the charts like Williams would like to break the Beatles' record. If he succeeded, it would be the sixteenth of his career.
There are two feat pieces already published: Iommi in Rocket (“What a time to be alive,” sings Williams) and the Mexican duo Jesse & Joy in Humana sort of vision of a dehumanized future in which Chris Martin of Coldplay appears on guitars, keyboards and synths. There is a dedication to the Smiths singer and his ability to express Williams' feelings (“I'm a bit like you, but I'm worth much less”). The piece is titled Morrissey and is written by the singer with Gary Barlow.
Among the authors of Cocky (“You can talk to Jesus, I can talk to God”) appears Gaz Coombes of Supergrass. It's Ok Until the Drugs Stop Working it's a song written the next day, when the ashtray is full, you're paranoid and alone, and the effects of the drugs wear off. “What a time to be alive,” Williams sings again in the last song Pocket Rocket.
“I wanted to create the album I wanted to write and release after leaving Take That in 1995,” Williams said in a press release. “It was the height of Brit pop and a golden era for British music. I worked with some of my idols on this album: it's raw, there are more guitars and it's an even more energetic and powerful record than usual. There's a bit of Brit and definitely a bit of pop too.”
The tour of Britpop will pass through Italy: Williams will perform on June 13th at Firenze Rocks.
