New Albums
GARY KEMP
Insolo
COLUMBIA
6/10
Political despatches meet personal diary entries
Spandau reunions laid to rest and Floydrelated Saucerful Of Secrets activity on hold, Kemp returns to solo billing for the first time in 25 years on an album he says focuses on “the paradox of solitude in an urban landscape” and “how the past infects our present”. Queen’s Roger Taylor pounds along on the stately power ballad “Too Much” and its lament to a world overburdened with bad news, the soulful “I Am The Past” forms a loose trilogy of selfreflection with Kemp pondering the paths that led him to the present day, while the gospel hues of “Our Light” recall the “boy as pale as milk” of his youth.