Vuelve Duffy con un lp de folk puro y duro e incluso adoptando la estética barbuda tipo Devendra Banhart... (ver foto). De todas maneras sigue habiendo espacio para el pop. Las letras son tan curiosas y auobiográficas, como siempre yen algún tema incluso se cita a Franco (“When Franco died the shops in Barcelona ran out of champagne” canta en “Aldermanston”, todo una declaración del estado del mundo actual) y en otros se inspira en el hippisimo... (We can be free / Live in a lilac time / Stand in the rain / Hold hands and the sun will shine”) 2007 release of the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by the man known as 'Tin Tin' in the 80's, Stephen Duffy ('Kiss Me') with his brother Nick and their ranks have increased to six members with this album. It's Stephen Duffy's first set of recordings since taking over as prime songwriting collaborator with British superstar Robbie Williams and another previous pairing with Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as The Devils. The band of course still includes brother Nick as well as singer and multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with folk-jazz luminary and former member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and co-founder of Pentangle, Danny Thompson. Stephen, of course, has never been shy of revealing his sources. True to form, he reveals that new single Driving Somewhere was an attempt to evoke “Townes Van Zandt in Two Lane Blacktop and Fleetwood Mac’s cover of The Beach Boys’ Farmers Daughter.” Desert Shore emerged at the 29 Palms Inn after a day spent driving through the Mojave Desert listening to Nico’s Desertshore. Even The Lilac Time’s name is an acknowledgement of past inspirations. It stems, of course, from a Nick Drake song in a decade even less hospitable to Drake’s oeuvre than the one that killed him off.
Vuelve Duffy con un lp de folk puro y duro e incluso adoptando la estética barbuda tipo Devendra Banhart... (ver foto). De todas maneras sigue habiendo espacio para el pop. Las letras son tan curiosas y auobiográficas, como siempre y en algún tema incluso se cita a Franco (“When Franco died the shops in Barcelona ran out of champagne” canta en “Aldermanston”, todo una declaración del estado del mundo actual) y en otros se inspira en el hippisimo... (We can be free / Live in a lilac time / Stand in the rain / Hold hands and the sun will shine”) 2007 release of the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by the man known as 'Tin Tin' in the 80's, Stephen Duffy ('Kiss Me') with his brother Nick and their ranks have increased to six members with this album. It's Stephen Duffy's first set of recordings since taking over as prime songwriting collaborator with British superstar Robbie Williams and another previous pairing with Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as The Devils. The band of course still includes brother Nick as well as singer and multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with folk-jazz luminary and former member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and co-founder of Pentangle, Danny Thompson. Stephen, of course, has never been shy of revealing his sources. True to form, he reveals that new single Driving Somewhere was an attempt to evoke “Townes Van Zandt in Two Lane Blacktop and Fleetwood Mac’s cover of The Beach Boys’ Farmers Daughter.” Desert Shore emerged at the 29 Palms Inn after a day spent driving through the Mojave Desert listening to Nico’s Desertshore. Even The Lilac Time’s name is an acknowledgement of past inspirations. It stems, of course, from a Nick Drake song in a decade even less hospitable to Drake’s oeuvre than the one that killed him off.
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