FALL Together Again is Andy Burrows’ tenth album, when you add in his drumming days in Razorlight, his work with We Are Scientists, his sublime Smith & Burrows Christmas album and his soundtrack for The Snowman And The Snowdog with Ilan Eshkeri.
Once a drummer, not always a drummer (step forward Phil Collins, Don Henley, Dave Grohl, Karen Carpenter), but Burrows is more a tunesmith than a natural or distinctive front man.
This is an album of echoes, its songwriting reminding you in turns of solo McCartney, George Michael, Karl Wallinger’s World Party and the Seventies soft rock beloved of American FM stations and twisting coastal road journeys. Ironically, it was composed in the isolation of North Wales in December.
In this wintry burrow, Burrows and his band of Razorlight road crew compadres constructed musical warmth, but burdened it with sentiments as deflating as All This I’ve Heard Before, Watch Me Fall Again and You Won’t Find Love would suggest.
Who Are You Now? sums it up: he never settles on an identity.
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