In 2019, it returns under the name of his illustrious group Prefab Sprout. In 2003, it was released as Paddy McAloon’s solo album. Sixteen years after its release, I Trawl The Megahertz has resurfaced as a remastered edition. Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music UK Prefab Sprout – I Trawl the Megahertz (Remastered) (2019)įLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:35 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Pop
McAloon is a wickedly cavalier composer, his songs exploring human weaknesses like regret ('Bonny'), lust ('Appetite'), and infidelity. After threats of a lawsuit from the actor's estate) is a minor classic, a shimmering jazz-pop masterpiece sparked by Paddy McAloon's witty and inventive songwriting. Smart, sophisticated, and timelessly stylish, Steve McQueen (titled Two Wheels Good in the U.S. The album was conceived during and in the wake of McAloon's bout with an illness that temporarily took away his eyesight, but it's plain to hear that his vision remains.Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby: how we made Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen ‘People think Bonny is about my father’s death, but he wasn’t dead then – I imagined grief’ ‘I dreamed of. This song, the particularly autumnal "Sleeping Rough," is almost as emblematic of the album as the opener, expressing a somewhat sorrowful but content coming to grips with the passage of time ("I'll grow a long and silver beard and let it reach my knees"). Throughout its duration, Yvonne Connors speaks matter-of-factly - yet dramatically enough to be poignant - as she rifles through fragments of her memory, the most disarming of which reads like this: "I said, 'Your daddy loves you very much he just doesn't want to live with us anymore.'" Of the eight remaining songs, McAloon's voice is present on just one, which doesn't come along until near the end. The most significant song is the opener 22 minutes in length, it's nearly elegiac in it its mournful tones played out by a swaying string arrangement and a weeping trumpet. Grand, heavily orchestrated, predominantly instrumental, and not the type of thing you put on prior to going out or when you're in the mood for cleaning the house, the record is incredibly powerful - almost too powerful - even when held up against everything from Prefab Sprout's past. I Trawl the Megahertz, Paddy McAloon's first solo album, is as likely to perplex and infuriate as it is likely to stun and spellbind.
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