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Three albums that sit at the cosmic fringes of Weller’s Fat Pop cosmos
SANDRA VIJANDI
BOBBY WOMACK
The Bravest Man In The Universe
XL, 2012
There are certainly accidental yet notable parallels between much of Fat Pop (Volume 1) and Womack’s Damon Albarn-helmed swansong: a classic soul album that references the past without ever seeking to recreate it. 9/10
GALLIANO
The Plot Thickens
TALKIN’ LOUD, 1994
As an honorary member of the Acid Jazz gang, the Modfather will no doubt remember Galliano, featuring ex-Councillor Mick Talbot, whose outward facing cosmic funk presaged the cosmic equanimity detectable on many Weller albums, including this one. 7/10
TUNNG
Songs You Make At Night
FULLTIME HOBBY, 2018
The sense that between a studio and the imaginations of its owners, anything is achievable is common in post-22 Dreams Weller, and it’s abundant in the most recent opus by Mike Lindsay’s ever mutating collective. 9/10