Vinyl Paolo Nutini / Last Night In The Bittersweet

After an eight-year break, there is something new from Paolo Nutini. For those who don't know him yet, but know by name, yes, he's Scottish. His fifth studio album LAST NIGHT IN THE BITTERSWEET is a double album and sounds like a fresh start after a difficult time. The companions of this time were perhaps those whose names automatically pop up in the mind of the listener of LAST NIGHT IN THE BITTERSWEET. To get straight to the point: Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Tom Petty, all these and more influences make for an exciting album full of variety. Nutini's voice rushes through guttural longing outbursts on the first track AFTERNEATH to solid and radio-ready pop vocals on ACID EYES and so on.

BITTERSWEET TO THE END

LAST NIGHT OF THE BITTERSWEET begins very experimentally with a spoken monologue by Patricia Arquette (as Alabama) from the film TRUE ROMANCE in front of a swirling soundscape of drums, distorted, slightly spherical electric guitars and a bass in the foreground. After this passionate incantation of love has faded away, RADIO moves into a somewhat more orderly world, in which Paolo shows that he has also mastered the craft of pop music. After the radio-friendly THROUGH THE ECHOS, the brutal LOOSE IT continues, with swelling e-bass and e-guitars and a sonic tirade against reason (...for a little while). Paolo's distorted voice and the driving rhythm let LOOSE IT do without a remarkable melody, but provide movement. Next up is Tom Petty in the guise of PETRIFIED IN LOVE, whose fast pace and attention to detail inevitably have you bopping along.

CONCLUSION

Paolo Nutini has created a spirited, profound and superbly recorded album. The closing piece WRITER leaves you feeling a bit melancholic but hopeful, without any tonal experiments, simply with (this time undistorted) voice and acoustic guitar. As if someone had found their way back to themselves.

TRACK LIST

01 Afterneath

02 radio

03 Through The Echoes

04 Acid Eyes

05 Stranded Words (Interlude)

01 Lose It

02 Petrified In Love

03 Everywhere

01 Abigail

02 Children of the Stars

03 Heart Filled Up

04 Shine A Light

01 Desperation

02 Julianne

03 Take Me Take Mine

04 writers