The Download: New Fireman (Paul McCartney & Youth Collaboration) MP3

By ANDY VIHSTADT

At first listen, you’d never guess that Paul McCartney is the gritty blues voice behind “Nothing Too Much Just out of Sight.” The track opens up the third LP from the former Beatle in his project with producer and Killing Joke bassist, Youth. The Fireman’s Electric Arguments comes out tomorrow and is the duo’s first LP to be publicly acknowledged by Sir McCartney, as well as the first to feature him singing. According to their site:

 “Electric Arguments is an eclectic and varied album consisting of thirteen tracks recorded in thirteen days over the period of nearly a year. Each track was written and recorded in the space of one day. The Fireman went into the studio with no plan or clear direction of how they wanted the album to sound. The project took a life of its own and the results will surprise anyone expecting to hear the previous sound of the band.

The album’s opener ‘Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight’ is classic rock and an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff with loud drums and souring vocals, it’s like nothing The Fireman have ever done before. The second track, the acoustic driven ‘Two Magpies’ immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song ‘Sing The Changes’, a euphoric upbeat song with an instantly memorable melody.

Electric Arguments continues in this fashion, keeping the listener intrigued as to where The Fireman will take them next. Each album track has an entirely different personality, yet somehow this collection sits together perfectly. Other standout tracks include ‘Light From Your Lighthouse’, ‘Sun Is Shining’ and ‘Dance ‘Til We’re High’, all in keeping with the genre-hopping spirit of the first two The Fireman albums. Electric Arguments demonstrates that Paul McCartney is still interested in pure musical possibilities. This is an album set to both surprise and delight the listener. Made with no record company restraints or a set release date to work to, Electric Arguments was made with complete artistic and creative freedom.”

Download a preview below (thanks to Spinner,) and take a listen to the first single, “Sing the Changes,” at the Fireman site.

MP3: The Fireman, “Nothing Too Much Just out of Sight,” Electric Arguments (One Little Indian)