ROCK ON
PAUL WELLER
True Meanings
Passing 60, it seems the Modfather has entered a third solo age here, bringing new acoustic subtlety and improved clarity of production over most of his recent experimental catalogue, with bewitching results. The songs are delicious, still a bit Beatley in their changes, predominantly wistfully major constructions, though softly so as this is a night-time album, as presaged by the opening lyric ‘Here’s one for the searching soul in the moonlight’. But the softer sound is lacking neither complexity nor emotion, rather his love of
