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Dark Days & Bright NightsSunday, 22 January 2012
REVIEW: Adam Lambert - Trespassing (First Listen)!
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But as the songs were being played, I wrote down words such as 'growly', 'filthy', catchy', 'Queen', 'Jacko-esque', 'devastating', 'clapping, 'epic' and 'Sam Sparro.
The best of the tracks? At this stage I couldn't say, but one song that had the room straighten up was 'Cuckoo'. An electro-pop tune that despite being packed with all manner of production wizardry, remains an effortless number with a chorus whose hooks quickly dig in deep. Its co-penned by Bonnie McKee, who wrote the best songs on Katy Perry's Teenage Dreams and half of Britney Spear's Femme Fatale, which says it all really.
As soon as I heard the titled track 'Trespassing' I wrote down the band 'Queen'. Produced by the popular Pharrell Williams, it combines funky bass with guitars and hand claps. "I was walking for some time when I came across this line," Adam belts with a growly vocal on the chorus. I'm assuming this song will be a single at some point and if it isn't there will b trouble.
'Shady' is one sexy song. "Take me underground/ Deep below the street" he sings over a raunchy bass guitar riff that sounds like it was recorded in a sex club but in a trendy sex club that has chandeliers dangling from the ceiling and has champagne on their drinks menu as opposed to a dirty, dark and grimey one in the back of a road. If Adam Lambert was a song, it would be this. Its in your face and exactly why certain people (in America, mostly) sometimes get flustered about him. 'Shady' features Nile Rogers and Sam Sparro but don't let that put you off, because the song is amazing.
After those songs, we were then told that those tracks were just some of the album's 'light' tracks. I'm guessing there's a happy/light, sad/dark sort of structure to the album. Then we was told the next track was Adam's most 'most personal' track on the album so I kind of gathered it would be a sad, dark type of song. 'Outlaws Of Love' is a massive ballad with big drums and delicate chimes that shows of just how wide his vocal range is.
Then we heard one of the tracks I have been hearing a lot about, 'Broken Silence' which is co-written by Sam Sparro, and its about struggling to communicate with your partner. "I cant say all the little things that I wanna tell you right now." he says, before we heard a bizarre but instantly addictive noise that's we can only compare to a fire extinguisher being let off. I originally likened it to Britney's 'Inside Out', but on reflection its a pretty loose comparison.
Strangely enough, the only song that feels out of place on Trespassing so far is the lead single, 'Better Than I know Myself'. Maybe its because that there's more of that sound to come and we just haven't heard it yet, or it might end up being one of those songs that serves as a 'bridge' between his old album and the new one. Either way, there's possibly 4 more new songs come from the album, so fingers crossed the UK will see this time round how talented this guy is.
and here ist the video again!