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Date Posted: 11:47:03 06/04/08 Wed
Author: The Loved
Subject: 22 Dreams

As a rule, I normally like to hear an album a good few times before passing judgement, but such is my disappointment with 22 Dreams after 1 playing, that I've gotta express it straight away, I'm sad to say.

The concept of a double album (any album really, it's been so long overdue), consisting of a long-awaited written collaboration with Noel G and the good single, Have You Made Up Your Mind, made for a much anticipated trip to pick up my copy, filled with schoolboy excitement.

Well, that collaboration with Noel G basically summed up the whole album ... flat. Let's be honest, you could cut off after 'Cold Moments', the last 2/3rd's of the album is just weak and weird, normally consisting of repeating the title of the song 30 times in a monotone voice, before making way for a flurry of strange instrumentation and effects.

The best thing on the whole album is 'The Missing Dream' aka Dream #22 by Simon Armitage, which is just wonderful, and 'God' on the 2nd side is a clever poem, although Aziz's voice is completely wrong for it, im my opinion.

If illumination and As Is Now were patchy albums, then this has the worst of both ... at least with those albums you had standout tracks in Bullet, Stars, Books, Come On, Blink, etc, but I can't think of one standout on this. The lead single is a good song, but a great song? ... I don't think so.

If you was to make a personal, 20 track Best-of Weller solo compilation for your car, I'd be very suprised if anyone chose a track from this album to be on it.

I'm sure a few tracks will grow on me, and in time, I'll instictively hit the skip button and play a cut down version of the album that I'll enjoy, but I'll always have the feeling that there should have been so much more from this ...

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