{"id":2409,"date":"2018-11-29T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2018-11-27T08:34:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T08:34:18","slug":"sulo-nightshift-beautiful-outsiders-cargo-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Sulo – Nightshift \/Beautiful Outsiders (Cargo Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Considering his epic catalogue of releases I don’t think I can recall sulo\u00a0ever making a “Bad” record luckily this very ambitious release can also be added to the ever impressive list.\u00a0 Diamond Dogs, The Crunch or Solo he has his distinct vocal and can easily flip-flop between styles sure they’re all Rock and Roll but this is a far gentler side of his work.\u00a0 Especially the ‘Nightshift’ side as it might suggest. Piano acoustic guitars duets its fairly standard arrangments for sure but the quality of the songs shines through. ‘Time To Alight’ is a wonderful and simple piano and guitar song with sparse backing vocals. I think its fair to say that if Sulo wanted to create a soundtrack to the dead of night then he has achieved that with some to spare. It’s gentle and soft in places and its personified in the albums title track with some beautiful piano rolls that sort of put a full stop on proceedings.<\/p>\n

Sulo has always had great musicians working with him to compliment his writing and this is no exception.\u00a0 I love the swirling organ that stabs through the bleakness like on ‘I Swear To God I Don’t Believe’ I love the grandness of the backing\u00a0vocals.\u00a0 \u00a0Considering this\u00a0collection has twenty seven songs it ebbs and flows wonderfully I know it won’t please everyone but if you want the guys gentler balladeering side then it’s here and if you want the Rock and Roll that’s\u00a0present too the only thing missing is the punkier side but that’s\u00a0why he does the Crunch I guess.\u00a0 \u00a0Sure I think its fair to say you will be drawn to one CD over the other be it the darker melancholy\u00a0side or the more uptempo and light side, me I’m somewhere in between as I think the best songs are on ‘Nightshift’ I do love it when he delves into that whole Faces groove but here its not quite that simple as ‘Brilliant Outsiders’ has got its country honk going on.\u00a0 If you ever liked someone like Chuck Prophet then you need to check this out – lap steel, duets, country honk Sulo has arranged for a whole record of players to duet with him from Stockholm to Florida and Nashville to London and everywhere between have lent a helping hand. He’s even managed to rope in the UK finest Country Band Los Pacaminos to back him up.\u00a0 So it would seem you can also add this style to his ever-bulging\u00a0portfolio.\u00a0 It’s not quite the stretch you might think but the songs are authentic and sound like they’ve been brought from a good place and a happiness and Joie\u00a0de vivre captured within.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Bring Down The Angels’ is fantastic and the band lives it up on ‘God Damned Jesus’ did somebody mention Mellencamp meets Waits meets Waylon?\u00a0 Oh, it was me.\u00a0 Well, that’s\u00a0the ballpark we’re playing in here.\u00a0 I think its no good thinking you’re going to hear the Diamond Dogs or Crunch because that’s\u00a0not going to happen you have to keep an open mind and just let the music flow.\u00a0 whilst it might have been an experiment too far for a lot of people for many others I’m sure an appreciation for the guy’s songwriting talent will win them over.\u00a0 Me – I’m happy to hear whatever Sulo throws my way I think he’s a talent we should champion no matter what style he delivers next.\u00a0 If you don’t raise a smile by the end of ‘A Song For Every Train’ then I feel sorry for you.<\/p>\n

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

Considering his epic catalogue of releases I don’t think I can recall sulo\u00a0ever making a “Bad” record luckily this very ambitious release can also be added to the ever impressive list.\u00a0 Diamond Dogs, The Crunch or Solo he has his distinct vocal and can easily flip-flop between styles sure they’re all Rock and Roll but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[703,690,691,698,709,708,694,705,693,712,701,700,702,697,695,704,696,706,699,711,689,687,692,688,707,710],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-average-white-band","tag-bellamy-brothers","tag-chris-spedding","tag-clare-teal","tag-diamond-dogs","tag-hamish-stewart","tag-idde-schultz","tag-jamie-moses","tag-janis-ian","tag-kevin-poree","tag-kikki-danielsson","tag-linda-gail-lewis","tag-los-pacaminos","tag-maria-mckee","tag-paul-brady","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-paul-young","tag-queen","tag-rissi-palmer","tag-robert-wyatt","tag-sam-gleaves","tag-sulo","tag-terry-reid","tag-the-crunch","tag-tom-jones","tag-wilco-johnson","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","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=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}