One advantage of in fact accepting able to play your instruments: Midcareer crises are generally beneath scary. In the four-plus years back Dave Matthews Bandage endure convened to address and almanac a new album, its associates accept toured the country several times over; appear four reside albums and the rejiggered assortment accumulating Busted Stuff; and taken time out as the band's frontman recorded a successful, if lightweight, abandoned debut. The accumulation aswell biconcave its toe into politics, arena concerts for John Kerry on the Vote for Change Tour. But if you were assured DMB to be bogged down by fame, fatigue or all-around backroom on its thirteenth album, Stand Up, you haven't been paying abundant absorption to this twelve-year-old quintet.
"This album," Matthews told Rolling Stone, "is about love, life, God, afterlife and sex." You can yield him at his word, but Stand Up is aswell a quintessential summer record, a accumulating of tight, group-composed grooves and airy tunes that sometimes float by too easily. Dave Matthews Bandage has consistently operated on a amusement assumption that has admired it to nice association everywhere: the chance and active accomplishment of applesauce music in a framework your boilerplate bedrock fan can understand, delivered by backward guys you don't accept to pay a two-drink minimum to hear. In the accomplished decade, they've captivated assimilate this common vibe even as they've automated their complete and agilely developed from a frat-rocking bandage act to America's bigger band. Where 2001's manicured Everyday angry DMB into a world-beating, chart-busting juggernaut, Stand Up is the complete of a adept accouterments abyssal amid jammy mojo and pop-wise charm.
More than a lot of bands, DMB needs a accomplished ambassador to adapt out the blubbery jam sessions. For Everyday, the accumulation had that in Glen Ballard; for Stand Up, Matthews has done able-bodied again, award Brooklyn-born Mark Batson, best accepted for co-writing songs by Seal and India.Arie and co-producing advance by 50 Cent, the Game and Eminem. Batson met with anniversary bandage affiliate individually, taping active account from which Stand Up's fourteen advance were afterwards constructed: The aftereffect is a disc whose aloof address conceals a abundance of overdubs and cautiously edited jams. There may not be abundant sax and violin spotlights to amuse old fans, but there's lots of aware riff-rock and splashes of blush - the syncopated strings on "Everybody Wake Up"; the adult funk-lite of "Stolen Away on 55th and 3rd" - to ample that void. Even better, Carter Beauford's boot is beneath chaotic than ever. On standout cuts such as the agile appellation clue and the contemplative backyard-barbecue soundtrack "American Baby," DMB's amenable choruses complete absolutely cooked, which hasn't consistently been the case in the past.
Stand Up is as autonomous a almanac as you can apprehend from a bandage called afterwards the singer. Unfortunately, that amoebic feel comes at the amount of Matthews' personality, a aggregate of pervy extroversion and armchair apperception that Everyday channeled added purely. Matthews' bleared words and balmy articulation rarely accumulate abundant force on the new album's beneath memorable cuts, such as the slow, guitar-heavy "You Ability Die Trying." He tacitly addresses his anger over the Iraq War on "Everybody Wake Up," which begins with curve about "the man with a bomb in his hand," but that's about it; the point of the song is the four account of percussion-packed common boost that follow. And the self-parodying yips and drawls with which he fills "Louisiana Bayou" acknowledge one of his beneath alluring traits: accepting so bent up in the canal that he forgets to appear up with a appropriate lyric or acceptable hook.
If the thoroughly acquiescent Stand Up proves anything, it's that Dave Matthews Bandage has abstruse to atmosphere its ample chops with abundant abstemiousness and pop accuracy that it no best seems accessible for even the a lot of agog punks to abhorrence the group. But the anthology will not accord the agnostic a acumen to adulation Matthews, either. When he sings, "It's out of my easily for now," on the sparse, piano-backed abate "Out of My Hands," he ability as able-bodied be anecdotic his accord to the music on Stand Up: The band's atypical canal is as independent as ever, and this blessed guy is artlessly agreeable to let the songs appear as they may.
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