{"id":17585,"date":"2022-01-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17585"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:32:20","slug":"helen-love-this-is-my-world-alcopop-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17585","title":{"rendered":"Helen Love -\u2018This Is My World\u2019 (Alcopop! Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nostalgia is, we all know, a big seller these days. But, usually, a nostalgic album equals a distinct lack of ideas, or rummaging through your back catalogue. Helen Love has managed to not only avoid this pothole, but also to write an album with perhaps more depth than some would give her credit for. Ten new songs, which, while remaining steadfastly pop, eschew the dayglo colours that her work is known for, and which tell her story in a way that is often very moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018My Seaside Town\u2019 sets the scene, acknowledging that your roots might be holding you back. \u201cI think I\u2019m about to choke on the boredom and the fumes\u2026whiplashed by winter rain\u201d. Wishing you were somewhere more exciting, greener grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Billy Liar\u2019 reminisces about the kid at school who told tall tales, \u201cyour dad was a Kung fu black belt master\u201d. \u2018Go-Kart\u2019, with its parping keyboards, manages to sound like John Shuttleworth whilst also being quite touching and warm; \u201cwe were the queens of our estate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018A Quite Good Time\u2019 remembers that first\/early boyfriend, who your sister warned you about. With the wise refrain \u201cwhy would you listen to anyone when you\u2019re seventeen?\u201d. \u2018Let The Sunshine In\u2019 is a celebration towards better times, and is as infectious as you would imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Our House\u2019 evokes similar memories to the Madness tune, but in Helen\u2019s inimitable style, and with some pathos; \u201cour history lies in the curtains, the carpets and the walls\u201d. \u2018First Day Of June\u2019 echoes the theme of the cloying seaside town; \u201cit can hold you so tight you might never leave\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so to \u2018Clearing Out Mum\u2019s House\u2019. It\u2019s a first; Helen Love made me cry! If you\u2019ve had to empty your parents\u2019 house, you\u2019ll empathise with the lyrics here. A lifetime of belongings, what to keep, what to throw away. A lifetime of memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018This Is My World\u2019 sees some of Helen\u2019s many achievements; walking with Joey Ramone, but also standing with the miners in the 1980s. That seaside town probably feels like home now, and it helped to create someone special. Helen Love is still here, still spreading joy, but with a broader palette than before. She\u2019s a treasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Martin Chamarette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nostalgia is, we all know, a big seller these days. But, usually, a nostalgic album equals a distinct lack of ideas, or rummaging through your back catalogue. Helen Love has managed to not only avoid this pothole, but also to write an album with perhaps more depth than some would give her credit for. Ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6009,1818,1681,2052],"class_list":["post-17585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-helen-love","tag-new-album","tag-rpmnews1","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17587,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions\/17587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}