![]() Dan Spalding had some mighty bass boots to fill, clearly, but his work on the wonderful “Stood Up At The Gates Of Heaven” propels that one along, while the ecclesiastical theme seems to continue with the hymn-like “Going Nowhere” – and indeed, we must praise Benjamin Anderson for his essentially MVP display throughout. The primal wail of “Divine Intervention”, with its low-slung lick clocks in at over eight minutes, but like the rest, it is astonishingly compelling. Make no mistake, though, these are catchy songs, with choruses to die for. And his lyrics, sound like poetic musings. “The Value Of Zero” is best described as “darkly blues”, and its line of “trust no one, question everything” seems to frame the record as a whole. What “The Light Below” has is actually hard to pin down, beyond that it is a huge, sprawling thing (the 12 songs are well over an hour), ambition, which Walking Papers manage to pull off entirely on their own terms. The real value, surely, is in what they don’t do.Įveryone knows the history, right? Barrett Martin and Duff McKagan were in the band (rule one of journalism is you never assume knowledge, but if you don’t know them, then you aren’t worthy of my explanation), but this version of the band has neither. But they are, very much a rock n roll band. ![]() Because, Jeff Angell and his boys are a rock n roll band like no other. All joking aside, it’s the type of nonsense that makes my blood boil.Īnd yet, Walking Papers. It sounds like something that a pretentious arsehole would say (I am only one of those things to be fair) when discussing opera or something: “the real value is in what they don’t play”.
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