You knew I was gonna review this album, simply because it's Take That. But no worries, since I'm on break for a long bit I'll be able to host a flood of posts filled with awesome (or) not as hot albums that released thus far this year. Now then, let's look at Take That's latest album, or shall we say EP, that released in stores just recently this week.
My prediction for this weeks album charts? By the looks of it, I don't think it is their time this time that they will score a solid #1 (in terms of the position they're in on iTunes, which is #3 in three days so far), but who knows. Their CD sales are always as solid, and they illegitimately have a massive fanbase. But overall in terms of everything, my predictions are they will be outsold by Eminem's new duo, Bad (something, could care less) and will be slotted in the #2 position.
Since I like to add some sort of variety in this blog, I won't be doing a track-by-track sort of review this time. Although in a sense that I will be talking about each track in order, I'll just be doing them in a old-fashion way with the slightly short paragraph bits of digressing about other stuff that probably won't be relevant to what this album is all about.. (This paragraph all in all is simply 'digressed', see what I did there?) Enough with the corny lines, let's look further onto this monstrous album.
Love the fact that the first two singles appeal with the transformation of age, from When We Were Young to Man, we can see how these men seem to slot these two tracks into place. When We Were Young talks about the wild and fabulous, the foolish fearless, the young and glory days of Take That back in their troublesome super stardom lives in the 90s. The track heavily involves of Robbie, like he typically has been on 7 out of the 11 tracks on Progress. Though, it's a bit of a Flood situation where his vocals are balanced with Gary on the chorus. Then transitioning to Man, which involves a heavy doze of dark and mad stomps with haunting chants filled in with the likes of Mark Owen. The line I'm a bit eerie was when they quote, were waiting for the universe to end. Could this mean that as they become men, they feel it is their way of living a life filled with nothingness and depression, yet waiting for some apocalypse? (Notice that Man is track #2, as well as S.O.S. on CD2. Could this be a coincidence?) Another lyric that stands out is when they chant, givin' up too much, givin' up. Sure we live in a world where we are desperately are in need to give so much to another to show our way to love and be with one another, but chin up guys. There are other ways to live life in prosper than just finding a soul mate. Try golfing, or stay single forever, like Jason is. See, he knows the deal.
Love Love is a bit of anthem is it? With the hard thumping beats, this sounds a bit of a Kidz 2.0, yet equally both brilliant. Then on comes a triumphant tune, The Day The Work Is Done. This comes as one of their most thoughtful yet profound lyrics that the usual Take That brings to the plate. It speaks about atlhough people in modern society go through some hard times, they should be able to ground themselves, whilst rejoicing The Day The Work Is Done for themselves. Next, we have probably their most happy-go-lucky track in a long time, Beautiful, with some more heavy Gary vocals. Love the production on this one, pretty nifty stuff Start Price has done with this one. Another track that is a bit similar to Beautiful is Aliens, could this be some sort of experiment to what they think how Aliens react, or are they as what people not think they seem? Eerie isn't it?
Now how else is A TT album not complete with some more epic ballads? First off, we have the bit of a slinky sort of seducing background track of Don't Say Goodbye, though you may re-check to think that this track isn't as seducing as you think.. A bold statement of wisdom Gary shouts out is when the states, don't say goodbye to the world, until you live like kings and queens. Furthermore, the album draws off with Owens distinct vocals on Wonderful World. Now how many tracks will they include the word 'World' as a song title? This track is sort of the feeling I've been getting from Man. The bit in the end where they sing we're running out of time. I can't seem to clear what sort of message they're trying to convey in this one. Are they talking about love, destructiveness, guilt? No clue.
So there you have it. I would have loved that A, this album would've came without the Progress tracks. B, there would be some sort of sequel or connection that transitions between the tracks. And C, some more of Jason singing? (Perhaps not.) All in all, Take That has grown to some fashion that they know where they are capable of doing in terms of sound, production, lyrics, and all that. I do believe the direction they're going will receive a lot of support from their old fans, whilst gaining more new fans that will adapt to their new sound. But in contrast to their brilliant Progress album, I do not think it is up to par from it. Still, Progressed is undeniably a solid effort, but we haven't really seen the pure epicness from the likes of Kidz, Happy Now, or the almighty, The Flood.
B
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