How Lucky Jim is not a household name by now is beyond me. I can’t fathom it all. Having wrote about him here 3 years ago and interviewing him for his outstanding album True North, i was convinced that his time had finally arrived. In fairness it should have been with his previous releases when he was signed to Skint records that he became a household name but for whatever reasons it just didn’t happen regardless of those albums receiving great reviews across the music press. He has now bettered all those albums in my opinion with his latest effort For The Love Of Emily. Now with a great, new band behind him this album hits you deep in your soul from the very first track, Belfast (which funnily enough i believe is about Edinburgh) through to the perfect ending track Good Ship Emily, but at this moment i cannot pick out anything even resembling a bad track, they’re all top drawer. Gordon Grahame, the main man behind Lucky Jim is a really great songwriter, sometimes a little abstract which can you leave you guessing at what the song is really about but i always like that in a songwriter as it leaves the songs open to many interpretations.
Given the rather romantic nature of the album the use of strings are balanced perfectly alongside the great musicianship at work here. To me the album sounds as if it’s full of fresh optimism which i guess you would fully expect when you have put a new band together. It gets better with every listen and has been on a daily spin for the last couple of weeks.
So this is not so much of a review but more of a heads up that Lucky Jim have done it again and released ANOTHER album of supreme quality and surely this can’t be ignored for too much longer by the masses can it? Please help spread the word, tweet, re-blog, facebook it, run down the street stark bollock naked if you must and help get this album the recognition it truly deserves. Here is a little taster. Enjoy. Buy from itunes, amazon etc
