Le Fireman trouve sa voix...

The Fireman Finds His Voice With Brand New Album Electric Arguments
Album Release Date: 17th November 2008

The Fireman are back after a ten-year break and this time they have something to sing about. For the first time ever the The Fireman have found their voice, Electric Arguments is their first release to feature vocals. Electric Arguments is their third and brand new studio album and it’s not the album people might expect from the mysterious duo…

“Ambient dreams in rainbow arches describe the circles of The Fireman”, is how the duo described their music in a rare interview around the release of their last album ‘Rushes’ in 1998. Their first album ‘Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest’, released in 1993, was a solid ambient dance album heavy on electronics. Around this time the identity of The Fireman was unknown until the press exposed the duo as none other than Paul McCartney and Youth. The now defunct music bible Melody Maker heaped praise on the project, “Paul McCartney has discovered dance music – the results are staggeringly brilliant. They (The Fireman) take a melody and, with dexterous genre-hopping through ambient, trance and house, evolve a number of breathtaking variations.”

Last year The Fireman returned to work again to start work on what would become Electric Arguments. The results this time are entirely different.

Earlier this year The Fireman donated a new track, Lifelong Passion, from Electric Arguments, to the charity Adopt-A-Minefield. This new track marked a directional change for The Fireman. Lifelong Passion showcased a new more traditional song based sound with vocals, going against the sound of the first two albums. And so the speculation began. A ‘studio source’ was quoted in The Times as describing their new sound ‘like Arcade Fire meets Led Zeppelin’. So what had The Fireman been up to and what does the album sound like?

Electric Arguments is an eclectic and varied album consisting of thirteen tracks recorded in thirteen days over the period of nearly a year. Each track was written and recorded in the space of one day. The Fireman went into the studio with no plan or clear direction of how they wanted the album to sound. The project took a life of its own and the results will surprise anyone expecting to hear the previous sound of the band.

The album’s opener Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight is classic rock and an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff with loud drums and souring vocals, it’s like nothing The Fireman have ever done before. The second track, the acoustic driven Two Magpies immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song Sing The Changes, a euphoric upbeat song with an instantly memorable melody. Electric Arguments continues in this fashion, keeping the listener intrigued as to where The Fireman will take them next. Each album track has an entirely different personality, yet somehow this collection sits together perfectly. Other standout tracks include ‘Light From Your Lighthouse’, ‘Sun Is Shining’ and ‘Dance ‘Til We’re High’, all in keeping with the genre-hopping spirit of the first two The Fireman albums. Electric Arguments demonstrates that Paul McCartney is still interested in pure musical possibilities. This is an album set to both surprise and delight the listener. Made with no record company restraints or a set release date to work to, Electric Arguments was made with complete artistic and creative freedom.

Track listing:
The Fireman - Electric Arguments

1) Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight
2) Two Magpies
3) Sing The Changes
4) Travelling Light
5) Highway
6) Light From Your Lighthouse
7) Sun Is Shining
8) Dance ‘Til We’re High
9) Lifelong Passion
10) Is This Love?
11) Lovers In A Dream
12) Universal Here, Everlasting Now
13) Don’t Stop Running

Produced By Paul McCartney & Youth
All tracks written by Paul McCartney

Electric Arguments is released on One Little Indian

Source: PM.com

Je viens d'entendre "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight" extrait du nouveau Fireman et je dois dire que je viens d'en prendre plein la tete...

Vous vous souvenez d'"Helter Skelter", voici sa petite soeur tout droit tirée des 70's. Ce morceau est juste incroyable

La chanson devrait passait ce soir meme dans le "Collin Murray Show"
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Enjoy'

Est-ce que tu aurez lien pour pouvoir écouter le premier titre extrait (le lien de la radio ne fonctionne pas chez moi) ? Merci d'avance.

Non pas de lien, le morceau est passé en direct sur la BBC1.
Connectes toi sur la BBC1, le morceau doit repasser dans l'emission de Collin Murray.

Au bout de 30 minutes...

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Maintenant disponible sur le tube:
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Merci , j'ai réussi à l'écouté avec le deuxième lien.
Par contre j'aime pas la chanson , je préfère Lifelong Passion , en fait faut dire que je n'aime pas Helter Skelter au départ donc ...

ouais, ça a de la gueule !merci pour l'extrait !

Paul McC a écrit:merci pour l'extrait !

C'est plus qu'un extrait, c'est la chanson entière.
Avez vous écouter l'intro, où la DJette présente la chanson. Si l'on tend l'oreille, on peut entendre une chanson en fond... C'est moi où c'est bien la voix de Paul et donc un autre titre de l'album?

La version Stéréo est disponible ici:
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J'attends impatiemment l'avis d'Arty, le 2ème fan du "Fireman", après moi...

PAUL 1984: "A fella who used to hang around the clubs used to say, (Jamaican accent) 'Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on,' and he got annoyed when I did a song of it, 'cuz he wanted a cut. I said, 'Come on, Jimmy, it's just an expression. If you'd written the song, you could have had a cut.' He also used to say, 'Nothin's too much, just outta sight.' He was just one of those guys who had great expressions, you know."

Jolie anecdote, non?

J'aime la photo, est-cre une toile de Paul? ça y ressemble bcp en tout cas!

oh oui, c'est bien son style je pense !

franchement, je n'aime ni les couleurs ni le reste... suis-je tout seul ? j'aime bien helter skelter par contre (et aimerai tjrs).Comme aurait dit John : ce n'est que du bruit.(que Paul me pardonne).

une affaire de goût ou le goût des autres