ALBUM REVIEWS: TEITUR and IAN BROWN
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Teitur
All My Mistakes
A&G Records
★★★★☆
Teitur Lassen, born of the Faroe Islands - between Iceland, Scotland and Norway - knows how to knock out a great tune or two. His third English-language album The Singer bewitched critics, and two of those tracks appear in this bait for fans keen to hear more of his command over swooning strings, strident piano and sweet guitar. But AMM, which picks tracks from 2003's Poetry & Aeroplanes and 2006's Stay Under The Stars, is a worthy investment for any music lover. The lilting isolation and dependency expressed in One & Only completes a simple but accomplished song, whereas the portentous turn on initially innocent I Run The Carousel is a well-judged counterpoint.
Ian Brown
My Way
Fiction Records
★★★☆☆
The most successful one-man brand to survive The Stone Roses, Brown returned to the Roses' old Battery Studios home to record this sixth solo record. The strident piano riff on lead single Stellify launches the album along confident, personal lines, with revolutionary-minded Crowning Of The Poor right on its back, full of chest-beating knowingness from the Monkey himself. The shamanics and compelling crowd-pleasers don't end there though - the Spanish trumpet-laced stomp of In The Year 2525, the almost regal tempo of Always Remember Me, the vibrant synth-driven Marathon Man and rib-shaking basslines of For The Glory put My Way among the Mancunian's best output.
- STEPHEN MOORE
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