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Paul weller best album8/9/2023 ![]() I don’t know if it was deliberate – I think those things come from the subconscious. There’s joy and contentment in these songs – one is called I’m Where I Should Be. Did you set out to make a positive album? Which, at the time I wrote the tune last year, was the exact ages of me and my missus. But Saturn’s pattern is in the same place only twice in your life from when you were born, at the age of 28 and 56. And then there’s Saturn’s Return as well – I’ve only learnt this from journos. But I did find out afterward that there is an actual Saturn’s pattern, and it has its own website. As far as I know – unless there’s a subconscious thing or something – I just made it up: I was writing one night, just aimlessly, and the title just rolled off the tongue. Is it true you got the title Saturn’s Pattern from a website about Saturn’s actual pattern? The nine songs on latest album Saturn’s Pattern are further testament to this, and proof that his purple patch is long from over. ![]() There have also been numerous reissues in this time of his work with The Jam, The Style Council and as a solo artist (a ‘part two’ of his solo greatest hits came out last spring) but, as ever, even as he hits 57 this month, Paul Weller is only interested in moving forward at the highest velocity possible. The Mercury-nominated Wake Up The Nation from 2010 comprised 16 blasts of urgent, melodic, metallic noise (few of which lasted more than two minutes) and two years after that came Sonik Kicks, which encompassed motorik krautrock grooves, and kept David Guetta off the No1 album spot. The five albums he has released in that time have been progressively more inspired, eclectic, exciting, fired-up and ‘mod’ in the truest sense.Īs Is Now from 2005 began this renaissance, while the sprawling, pastoral double 22 Dreams three years later was ludicrously adventurous. If you are one of those people who still thinks Paul Weller is retro/dad/whatever-rock music, then you really, truly just need to listen to anything he’s put out in the past decade. On the eve of his latest album, Paul Weller talks to Hamish MacBain about contentment, discovering Skrillex and why he won’t be voting for anyone
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