The Fireman - Electric Arguments

Artist: The Fireman
Album: Electric Arguments
Genre: Pop Rock
Rating: 3.5 of 5


For those who were not aware The Fireman consist of Sir Paul McCartney and producer Martin Glover (also known as Youth). Just a couple regular guys messing around in the studio, well maybe not regular guys.

Much of the album takes standard rock tunes and applies a little flare. This can be seen from a couple blues-y tunes like "Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight" and "Highway". The bonus features are all the subtle changes they make to the sounds coming out like adding a little more fuzz on the guitars during the chorus, adding a little more echo to the vocals here and there and making the drums exist way in the background but take up the entire landscape at the same time.

The other half of this album entails taking songs out of their context and going more extreme with the electronic additions. Take "Travelling Light" that would normally be a nice acoustic guitar picking tune, and transform the song into a mesmerizing tune floating just out of reach. Another well-executed tune is "Lovers in a Dream" that moves from an opening that makes me feel like I'm in a jungle to a fuzzy dream-like reality.

This album transcends the barrier from rock to electronic nicely. At times it was just a little too much but the overall experience was nice.