Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate [8/18]

Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate [8/18] Artist: Madness See Also: Beatles (The) Clash (The) Description:Recording information: The Yard, Miloco; Toerag Studios. Photographer: Paul Rider. Madness never disappeared but they faded away, spending years playing summer festivals and other oldies venues befitting an act specializing in nostalgia, an impression that their 2005 covers album did nothing to assuage. All this makes this 2009 release--the band`s first album of original material in ten years--to feel fully realized, even surprising. The element of surprise is not in the music, which is firmly within the 2-Tone tradition they laid down in the early `80s, but rather that they`ve found a way to deepen their nutty sound, to offer nothing less than a mature, middle-aged spin on 2-Tone. This album is about London, and is steeped in classic British pop, using the Kinks as ground zero for a series of wry, keenly observed pop songs about the people and places in London Town. While Madness may be trading on the sound that brought them to the top of the charts, it never sounds like a vain, desperate stab at reviving their youth; they play and write as the middle-aged men they are, finding sustenance within the music of their youth, then adapting it to their lives now, finding as much mirth as melancholy in what they see.Track Listing: •DISC 1 1.Overture 2.We Are London 3.Sugar and Spice 4.Forever Young 5.Dust Devil 6.Rainbows 7.That Close 8.Mkii 9.On the Town 10.Bingo 11.Idiot Child 12.Africa 13.Nw5 14.Clerkenwell Polka 15.Liberty of Norton Folgate, The Album Information

Release Date:09/29/2009Type:PerformerGenre:ReggaeSubgenre:2 Tone SkaLabel:Yep Roc RecordsCatalog Number:2211Original Release Year:2009# of Discs:1Studio/Live:StudioMono/Stereo:Stereo