Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures // Gin
Go on this musical journey - you'll love it.
The moment you get your hands on a new Stanley Brinks album, you should know what you can expect. The man’s a real monument in the music industry with a discography of over 100 albums. He’s known for his crafty guitar work, raw voice and his inexhaustible musical creativity. His latest album, for which he worked with English rock band the Wave Pictures, even takes Brink’s qualities a step further, resulting in a one-of-a-kind album filled to the brim with hallucinating, hypnotizing, but oh such tremendous sounds.
Get on board and let yourself be taken away by the music. Better advice couldn’t be given to you, trust me. Gin seems to travel through the world on this 10-track album, with each song entering a different area. What do you think of an old road tavern somewhere near an American highway? Or a beautiful Hawaiian coastline, in the shade of a coconut tree, feet in the sand? Or perhaps an old, dusty factory, where some bloke’s bashing out a tune from a heavy machine, sweat on his back? It’s all in there. Not that you have to take this literally. The diversity on this album just suggests you being at these places, and touches the very core of music doing so, taking you away.
“What do we do with our days in a land of parking lots and highways?” is what it’s all about. These lyrics, featured on the 8th track of this album, 'Parking Lots' - summarise perfectly what this album is about. Standing still next to the most normal things in life, and just thinking about it. Perhaps you could fill your days with making music as you can hear on this album?
It’s not about the money, about the fans or about showing off. It’s just about going in a studio with a massive lot of instruments, letting the magic happen and adding some good old improvisation. The result is as it should be: an honest, raw album that perfectly illustrates the journey musicians make while creating it. A staggeringly good album that’s definitely worth a place on your shelf. It illustrates that Stanley Brinks’ inspiration pond isn’t empty yet. And we can only thank him for that.
9/10 Yarreth
