mostly david ephgrave

I like a week with a new Paul McCartney album at the end of it. Unfortunately this situation doesn't tend to come up more than once every five years these days - or two to three if we’re lucky - but no-one could keep up the ridiculous two albums per year policy The Beatles applied in the 1960s (or at least one a year in the case of Wings in the 1970s). However, when the conditions are right, another Macca LP bubbles to the surface, and it’s fair to say he’s been on a bit of a creative roll ever since Flaming Pie emerged in 1997 with only a few minor blots on the landscape (as you’d expect with any artist). I’ve written regularly of how frustrated I get with the public perception of McCartney, which is lazy at best and often at odds with his obvious high ability and prolificity; it doesn’t matter how regularly his work is critically acclaimed (which is remarkably often for an act with such a long history) there’s still the suggestion he’s put ou...