Looking forward to this and will be going to see them end Sept
While loved Someday I’ll Soar, absolutely loathed the half-arsed Irish Soul shambles from a few years back and saw no need to get TRA as it should’ve sounded (interesting show of them playing the album live on Sky Arts a few weeks back).
While broadly positive, the reviewer at Silent Radio seems to think it’s a game of two halves. He/She also omits to mention our Kev’s solo debut, The Wanderer, pretty much his coke album. Still have the tinyl somewhere but not played it in aeons
Anyone here heard FD yet or intending to get/not get it?
https://www.silentradio.co.uk/07/19/album-review-dexys-the-feminine-divine/
Think I’ve posted without a tag so bumped up the page again
I love the Irish album and too rye aye as it should sound is worth it for the live stuff and also the re-worked Old which is just beautiful.
I am looking forward to seeing them in September but first track I heard was not overly impressive. I too read that it was an album of two halves although two critics have suggested one track is the best thing he has ever done.
I’m not impressed.
That’s enough from you Shania.
You never flippin’ are Baron!
Loved almost everything he’s done but didn’t think the Irish Soul album was up to much. One Day I’m Going To Soar is to these ears a good album with great songs hampered a bit by a boxy drum sound.
I haven’t been overly impressed by what I’ve heard of this one, and I think he’s starting to look slightly ridiculous too. I’m sure I’ll buy the new album and probably see them live though.
I also like One Day I’m Going To Soar, bar the terrible production and appalling vinyl cut, so I bought the CD instead. The songs work so much better on the live album that I kicked myself for not going to see it live.
TRAAISHS was so bad on vinyl, I sent my copy back. “As it should have sounded” = “like a wasp in a jar with bacon and eggs frying in the background”. I bought the CD box instead.
So I’m waiting for news of the vinyl before I buy it. I’ll probably end up with a CD again, won’t I?
The production was dire for “Soar” wasn’t it? The quiet bits too quiet, the loud bits too loud…and that shit drum sound, which as it was Dave Ruffy playing them is unforgivable.
Haven’t heard the Too Rye Ay rejigged version…
That’s odd because I particularly like the drums on that album.
Maybe his next project will be ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar (As It Should Have Sounded)’.
The thought had occurred to me, too, Colin – there’s gold in them there Director’s Cuts.
Is it a marketing ploy?
Deliberately releasing horrible-sounding vinyl remasters so they can sell you a superior-sounding CD version as well?
Better not tell Steven Wilson.
Double bubble!!
Speaking of whom, I played the SW hi-res stereo mix of the Suede album (my equipment doesn’t do Atmos). Too smooth.
What I will say is that it seems he has had a massive budget for this album.
Would love to know what happens to Helen o Hara. She was there at the Commonwealth games and talking about touring and then she was gone.
Well she has written this.
https://www.route-online.com/all-books/whats-she-like
Hubes yes I know and thanks for reminding me. However the interview I had seen was after the release of the book and she intimated that she and Kevin were friends again and that she was looking forward to touring.
Something has happened and I am curious as she seems to have been airbrushed from any current articles or interviews.
My problem was I didn’t know when the commonwealth games were on. I knew she’d spoken about the book for Route last year.
I could have written the exact same comment.
You probably could have posted that same exact picture.
@Tiggerlion
Terrible to see that KR’s people have gotten to HP and silenced him,.
It’s the AW equivalent of Farage being cancelled by Coutts
Damn right.
Surely you mean
Damn right wing
I’ve enjoyed the few singles so far & have tickets for the tour later on this year. I’m keeping an open mind on this as i disliked the previous one, but you never know with KR. It could be wonderful…
Feminine Divine shurely?
Thanks for pointing out the error of my ways, GT
Don’t know how the typo in the first part of the thread title happened – predictive spelling probably
Second error is all down to carelessness on my part
Any chance the Mods could change to Feminine Divine?
The mods are playing Dungeons and Dragons right now.
More “poor me” stuff from a man who hasn’t written a decent song since Thatcher. Try writing about anything apart from yourself, Kev.
I can’t remember the “Thatcher” one…?
It was on Don’t Stand Me Downing Street
or possibly Searching for the Toby Young Soul Rebels
You win today’s “tea over keyboard” prize.
Eyethangyow
Harold Wilson Said? Doesn’t really work, does it? Ignore me
Possibly “Let’s Make This Private” off To-Ry Ay.
Have to agree. Even the critically sainted Don’t Stand Me Down left me largely bored.
For me that album proved to be the ultimate grower. Apart from Listen To This, which I loved right from first hearing, the rest took a very long while to sink in.
Yep, This Is What She’s Like is something very special. Maybe edit out the chat at the start, though.
That’s the one I actually adore. Including, almost especially, the chat intro.
One Day I’m Going To Soar is probably my favourite album of the 21st Century. I came to Dexys late, having been a bit indifferent to the early stuff, but loved DSMD, and later appreciated the first two. I agree with the comments above about the production and the drum sound in particular (it works OK on the more Memphis-style tracks (Wiggle, Nowhere Is Home) and on John Joe, elsewhere not so much for me), but like another favourite of mine, High Land, Hard Rain, the songs and the performances outweigh those concerns.
Anyway, the usually reliable Alexis Petridis has given it 4 stars today in the Guardian as his album of the week, so hopefully that’s another good sign, even if he does talk about a “radically remixed” Too-Rye-Aye, which definitely wasn’t radical to my ears.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/dexys-the-feminine-divine-review