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Jonny Greenwood - Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller
- An amalgamation of different vocalists but ingrained with the same carefree, breezy feeling makes up Jonny Greenwood’s Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller. Each track has that lighthearted tone to it, even if the lyrics aren’t as cheerful. The album is the perfect one to listen to while vacationing on Shangri-la sipping an umbrella drink, lying on the beach relaxing your cares away.
Linval Thompson opens the album with “Dread Are the Controller.” It has guitar and percussion throughout and Thompson speaks of a scenario he is sure will not occur, with lines like, “They will try to leave you…They know that they can never do that, no way, you will always be guided by the father.” Counsel by some undefined figure could bring hope to listeners as they define the meaning of this song to fit their own personal specifications.
“Let Me Down Easy,” by Derrick Harriott, follows, and is a song about a painful breakup. It begins with drums and what sounds like a flute in the background. Harriott seems to be beseeching his partner to show him how to let her go despite his immense love for her, with such lines as, “Let me down easy, give me time to get over you baby, break it to me gently if this is goodbye. Baby say it slow, cuz you taught me to love you, so come on girl and teach me not to love you before you go. Cuz the fall from the top to the bottom is a sudden drop so let me down easy.” The harmonizing females in the background complement Harriott flawlessly and you can hear the anguish in his voice as he is trying to figure out a way to let go of this person he loves so completely.
Marcia Aitken’s “I’m Still in Love” is a remix that gets a little redundant, which might dissuade listeners. It’s a song about one woman’s feelings and the man’s inability to reciprocate them to her satisfaction. Aitken repeats the line, “I’m still in love with you” three times, followed by “and you don’t know how to love me.” You can hear in her voice that this revelation is upsetting to Aitken, and the piano periodically played throughout is a small bright spot in a predominately sad song.
“Never Be Ungrateful,” by Gregory Isaacs, has organ work and talks about not being unappreciative of the love he is bestowing. This song would be a good wedding song for a groom to profess his undying love to his bride and ask her to never doubt his affection, with such lines as, “I want you to promise me, promise me that you’ll be thankful, promise me you’ll never be ungrateful. Say the words that you will never be untrue. And I sing a lullaby to you, promise me that you will treat me kind say the words that you’ll always be mine.”
Jonny Greenwood’s Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller has testimonies of love as well as pleading for love not to be abandoned. The ever changing vocalists add spice to the album and give listeners a variety that is sure to make them find songs they will cherish forever on this album.
Reviewer: Sari N. Kent
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Added: 13-Mar-2007
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