Saturns Pattern

Brand new sealed 180 gram  album with free download voucher. Made in the EU.

Saturns Pattern continues the purple patch Weller hit in 2008 with 22 Dreams, when he suddenly began to experiment with new ways of writing and recording. Weller is a magpie in terms of where he finds inspiration. Long Time chugs along menacingly like the Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Dog, while Going My Way’s simple refrain veers into a Todd Rundgren-meets-the Beach Boys stomp. His voice is Bowie-esque on Pick It Up, then like a megaphoned Don Van Vliet on White Sky. But Weller’s renaissance has not come at the expense of his musical identity. The sunshine-pop haze of Phoenix is from the Tame Impala playbook, but you could imagine Style Council-era Weller singing it. I’m Where I Should Be has a Damon Albarn-ish melancholy, but it’s a clenched suburban vignette that the Jam might have recorded. “Still got a way to go,” Weller sings on the coda of closing track These City Streets – a positive note that suggests there’s plenty more where this came from.