Rating: 4/5
Review:
A solid album from Wilco
I award Wilko 5 stars for being here to make this album and
4 stars for the album itself. It's a
perfectly decent album with some good, solid stuff on it, but it's not a
classic, however much we may love the man.
Blow Your Mind has a lot of driving, almost funky
blues-rock, generally slower and more intense than Wilko's earlier years but
none the worse for that. It has a pretty
familiar feel – so much so that the riff from Take It Easy is a slowed down
version of the riff from Roxette – but again, that's fine by me. Wilko does what he does and he does it
fantastically well, so I'm certainly not going to carp about it.
All that said, this is a good album rather than an
outstanding one. The material is solid
rather than brilliant and, 40-odd years on, Wilko isn’t the dangerous young man
who thrilled me so at those early Feelgood gigs in the mid 70s any more. Nevertheless, Blow Your Mind is a well made
and very enjoyable album from one of the greats and I like it a lot.
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