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The Runout Groove | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time
Label: Fulfill
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 153929
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 684340001837
EAN: 0684340001837
ASIN: B000WEWHOQ
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Another Time | | • | Driving Somewhere | | • | Dream Of A Girl | | • | Desert Shore | | • | Dark Squadrons | | • | Until I Kissed You | | • | Aldermaston | | • | Pruning The Vine | | • | Happy Go Lucky | | • | Paliament Hill Fields | | • | No Direction | | • | Kite & The Sky |
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Album Description
"Heartbreakingly bittersweet ... sumptuous and subtle." -- Mojo [****] "A gorgeous raga-folk mid-point between the Incredible String Band and George Harrison." -- The Times [****] Mercury-nominated album by a legendary singer-songwriter who has recently co-written Robbie Williams' new album and has contributed tracks to most of the Barenaked Ladies' albums. This album represents the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by Stephen Duffy with his brother Nick, and their ranks have increased on this album, which features multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with Danny Thompson, folk-jazz luminary and co-founder of Pentangle.
Album Description
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. 12 tracks. Universal
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| Customer Reviews:
 You deserve to hear this! June 2, 2008
John Fields (Boston , MA)
Runout Groove is yet another gem by the wonderful musician/lyricist Stephen Duffy and his band The Lilac Time.Listen to this beautiful album a few times and chances are you will see what i mean!
 Maybe the groove has run down...a bit December 21, 2007
Brooke Oates (VA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hmmm...where to start. I have been a Stephen Duffy fan for many, many years. The opening lines of "American Eyes" from Paradise Circus had me hooked. I love all of the early LT albums (especially Astronauts) and his first few solo albums post-LT up through I Love My Friends (which I consider to be his best work of all) That said...other than a few tracks on Looking for a Day in the Night and "My Forest Brown" from 6, the latest incarnation of the LT is leaving me flat and I'm not sure I can express why. To me, the last few albums seem a bit short on melody and dynamics...it's like every song just kind've comes and goes without much impact. Go back through your collection and pick out his best tunes: "Return to Yesterday", "I Went to the Dance", "The Darkness of Her Eyes", "The Deal", "If the Stars Shine Tonight"...etc, etc. If you are honest (like I'm trying to be here), it will be tough for you to find anything on the past three albums that can rub shoulders with that company. I love Duffy for what he is and does...I would prefer that he move away from the tried and true pedal-steel LT quandry and bring some new dynmaics to his work. Perhaps I'm living too much in the past...but his work sounds like second-rate home recordings to me now whereas they used to send shivers up my spine. My two-cents worth...
 Stephen Duffy's Lyrics the Strongest Feature Here December 9, 2007
W. Wilson (Boxborough, MA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you have a bottle of champagne on ice for the day Bush leaves office, and a stack of CDs that you're spinning during the waning days of, for want of a better word, the "regime," you might consider adding _Runout Groove_ to the stack.
Don't let the sepia-toned photograph on the cover mislead you; there's anger in them thar pastoral hills of olde England. There's supposed to be a "concept" behind all of the photos, but I don't know what it is so I won't comment. Maybe the accompanying book of lyrics and song "explications" that's due out soon will shed some light?
On to the songs themselves...
"Another Time" begins with, "Here they come, the belligerent/I don't know what they do/With every shade of ignorance/They only make me blue..."
However, at about the same tempo as the opener to _Lilac 6,_ "Another Time" is a weak start out of the gate. And I have no idea what Stephen means by, "I'm glad that I live in another time." There is, however, a clever rewording here of a famous lyric by (early) The Who.
With the second track clouds disperse, we hold hands and the sun shines as we sing the chorus to "Driving Somewhere." This one's a winner, its lyrics seemingly penned by a disenchanted Jack Kerouac. Musically, it sounds like Fleetwood Mac at their poppiest. Sweet pedal steel sounds are a great touch here. The album could have done with another up-tempo number like this, since "Happy Go Lucky" seems pretty forgettable even after repeated listenings.
"A Dream of a Girl" is a sweet love song.
"Aldermaston" takes aim at the masters of war. More sublime lyrics: "When Franco died the shops in Barcelona ran out of champagne/And I was born under a peace sign, sheltered under the hard rain"
Of musical interest too is "Pruning the Vine," which sounds like Brian Jones popped in during the recording session and helped with the arrangement. And God, for lovers of words in and of themselves, it's crazy good to hear Stephen enunciate "patent leather boots."
Really, Stephen Duffy's lyrics are the strongest feature on this disc. Just pop in the disc and pretend you're at a beat poetry reading...in another time.
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