{"id":23599,"date":"2014-04-04T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-ginger-albion\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:35:00","slug":"album-review-ginger-albion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-ginger-albion\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Ginger &#8211; Albion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_inline_n3gjxrDI5o1qheirv.jpg\" title=\"\">Whatever way you look at it, <strong>Ginger Wildheart <\/strong>is a bonafide legend in the rock music industry. Since leaving the Quireboys and forming The Wildhearts back in 1989, the South Shields native has released a seemingly endless stream of records either with the now veteran band,\u00a0 as a solo artist, or most recently with new project Hey! Hello!. This week has seen a new instalment to his saga of solo albums, with <em>&lsquo;Albion&rsquo;,<\/em> the latest offering from a man responsible for twenty-five years of, as The Wildhearts best put it, \u201criff after motherfucking riff\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Albion<\/em>\u2019, then, starts off exactly how you\u2019d expect from an artist who only seems to get better with age. <em>\u2018Drive\u2019<\/em> kicks off the journey with nothing too challenging, but for a musician whose back catalogue of tracks is by now well into triple figures, the album is barely getting started. The closing stages of the track provide a thunderous collision of drums and guitar, before the final reprise of an irresistible chorus sees out the opening effort in a riotous fashion. The track ends so quickly that it\u2019s easy to be left wondering what happened. Is that the final note, or the ringing in your shell-shocked ears?<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s little time to ponder such questions, as <em>\u2018Cambria\u2019<\/em> roars into life with a piledriving fury. Did you wonder why there\u2019s a lion on the album cover? Yeah, it\u2019s because of tracks like this. The verses seem like they\u2019ve come barrelling out of a totally different dimension\u00a0 to the track\u2019s soaring chorus, but the entire ensemble comes together to sound simply marvellous. Again, the outro is one hand-crafted with the sole intention to get people moving, and it\u2019s hard to see there being any difficulty in it achieving its goal. The lyrics of <em>\u2018Grow A Pair\u2019<\/em> could certainly pass for inspiring; the assurance that <em>\u201cyou don\u2019t have to be a dickhead all your life\u201d<\/em> does not perhaps make the same impression as Devin Townsend\u2019s <em>\u2018Grace\u2019<\/em>, for example, but <strong>Ginger<\/strong>\u2019s willingness to have a bit of fun with his music certainly shines through just as brightly as that of his Canadian contemporary. From <em>\u2018Burn This City Down\u2019<\/em> through <em>\u2018The Order Of The Dog\u2019<\/em> and into<em> \u2018Body Parts\u2019<\/em>, <strong>Ginger<\/strong> continues his drive to fire off a real album of the year candidate. <em>\u2018The Order Of The Dog\u2019<\/em> is DT meets DTP, a many-headed beast of a track and a real highlight midway through the record.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The Beat Goes On (Caledonia)\u2019<\/em> would begin the steady build to <em>&#8216;Albion&rsquo;<\/em>\u2019s finale, if only you weren\u2019t enjoying the album far too much to even begin considering the end of the near hour-long LP. It\u2019s another piece that\u2019s been tinkered with in post-production, but it\u2019s all in the name of making you want to smile just as much as it makes you want to use your table as a trampoline. <em>\u2018After All You Said About Cowboys\u2019<\/em> is the closest thing to a ballad you\u2019ll be getting out of <strong>Ginger<\/strong> any time soon, but luckily he\u2019s one of those musicians who can step slightly out of his comfort zone and make the end result sound like it\u2019s his life\u2019s work. <em>\u2018Creepers\u2019<\/em> brings the towering energy of <em>&#8216;Albion&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>skyrocketing back, and the record\u2019s penultimate track is a real limb-mover. Seriously, if this can\u2019t get you moving, nothing will. Except, perhaps, the album closer.<em> \u2018Albion\u2019<\/em> is seen out by its title track, bringing together all of <strong>Ginger<\/strong>\u2019s flavours and styles in a ten-minute epic. The epitome of a grand finale, <em>&#8216;Albion&rsquo;<\/em>\u2019s curtain call is a progressive firestorm of sound to close out what will \u2013 there is no denying \u2013 dominate album of the year lists in December.<\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t many musicians left that are quite like <strong>Ginger Wildheart<\/strong>, which might be a good thing with all things considered. This world isn\u2019t big enough for more than a couple, a masterclass of musical energy that one doesn\u2019t simply \u201cstop\u201d. Ginger\u2019s already booked his place on the Mount Rushmore of rock music, everything else is simply a gift to a fanbase that has already enjoyed decades of musical magic. Here\u2019s to decades more.<\/p>\n<p>5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Albion\u2019 <\/em>by <strong>Ginger<\/strong> is out now on\u00a0<strong>Round Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ginger<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingerwildheart.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialginger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GingerWildheart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Antony Lusmore (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metacosmica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Metacosmica<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever way you look at it, Ginger Wildheart is a bonafide legend in the rock music industry. 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