mostly david ephgrave

The soundtrack to my day today, inevitably, what with it being released this morning, was the new Paul McCartney album ‘Egypt Station’, and to paraphrase one of its lyrics, “It’s been a blast”. Listening to new material from an artist you’ve followed your whole life can be a tense experience, particularly when - like McCartney - they’re eternally teetering toward inevitable comparison with their own past. Paul’s one of a tiny handful of people who somehow manages to be both hugely respected for his work with The Beatles while also often being derided as a figure of fun who supposedly hasn’t done anything to rival his early days for an eternity. Now, the latter half of that sentence is bollocks and is something that - at least in the eyes of the music press - has been refuted so often by reviews of his recent work, which has generally been seen to have hit a bit of a purple streak since the late Nineties. Yet despite this, the cliche's a difficu...