Dennis BlandfordIch mag Michael Kiwanuka auch. Habe aber die Befürchtung, dass nicht alles auf dem Debut so gut sein wird wie das Titelstück.
In MOJO bekommt er ****, Weller nur ***
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Paul Weller
Sonik Kicks ***
Fifty-three-year-old’s avant-pop crusade is a little Blur’d.
Happy days for middle-aged Mods: Paul Weller is dancing naked in the street so you don’t have to. Neater than 22 Dreams but lacking the gravitas of Wake Up The Nation, an ongoing reconnection with the experimental dandy in the mirror lends his latest work’s stylistic pinballing a fun quotient that compensates for its unevenness. There’s an admirable frivolity to the Krautrock squelch and random vocal emissions of Green, through the Trolley Song-gone-Weimar stomp Kling I Klang, peaking with That Dangerous Age’s self-satirical doo-woppery, where Weller does a postmodernist mindwarp and writes the best Blur song ever. Despite a rather lumpy final third, Sonik Kicks closes on a high, the Delfonically swooning Be Happy Children, featuring vocals from sprogs Leah and Mac. On such form, Weller is in serious danger of giving ‚dadrock‘ a good name.
Keith Cameron
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