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Credit: Sonny McCartney The story of Paul McCartney‘s self-titled trilogy is that of legend these days. The first in the collection, ‘McCartney’, was recorded solo at home by the Beatle during the band’s turbulent final period, offering a lo-fi outlet and away from the spotlight. He’s since claimed that the then-rudimentary recording equipment (largely pieced together entirely by Macca on a four-track tape, with contributions from wife Linda) resulted in one of the first ever “indie...

Paul McCartney is my absolute hero. Does that make me biased when reviewing his latest release? Shit yeah. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be objective. Paul used his time in lockdown, nay, “rockdown”, wisely, recording his third “solo” (i.e. writing, playing and producing) album. Returning to some half-written potential future classics, he gradually built upon them, layer by layer, using some of rock’s most iconic instruments, including (natch) his Hofner bass, the Mellotron keyboa...

Reviews / / 14 · 12 · 2020 There has been an ever so slight shift in the Macca narrative in the past few years. The image of the slightly cheesy uncle has made way for the real story - of the only Beatle who immersed himself in the London Avant-garde scene whilst all the others absconded to the shires; the lo-fi self-recorder years before it was fashionable, the megastar who took his new band on the university circuit, the one who embraced the electro scene of the...