​Nick Lowe (from the album Indoor Safari

​Nick Lowe (from the album Indoor Safari

​Nick Lowe (from the album Indoor Safari available on Yep Roc Records) (by Danny McCloskey) 


On his first new album in eleven years, Nick Lowe is joined by his long-time touring and recording backing group, Los Straitjackets, on his latest release, Indoor Safari. While former incarnations saw Nick Lowe as the Jesus of Cool, Indoor Safari secures his status as king of the 3-minute anthemic Pop song. In the pen, and hands, of Nick Lowe each track rides into Rock’n’Roll glory with the perfect match of words and music. Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets join up and head out to “Tokyo Bay” on a Rockabilly rhythm, chopping up chords to cut through the maze as a lost lover navigates through “Jet Pac Boomerang”. Rock’n’Roll rhythms ride a spinning wheel of groove options, Indoor Safari putting Rock’n’Rhythm on the marquee with “Crying Inside” as a slow sway catches the soft island breezes blowing across “Different Kind of Blue” while Nick Lowe returns to the early days of the British invasion to capture the Rock’n’Roll Blues of the era demanding “Don’t Be Nice to Me”, and sings the soundtrack of low-rent apartment living looking for “A Quiet Place”.
 
Traveling back into catalog song territory, Nick Lowe revisits “Trombone”, feeling that ‘when it was suggested that we should do an actual full-length album, the songs had evolved, and had some air blown into them. After playing them in front of an audience a dozen times, the players know what they're doing and they start listening to everybody else, and adjusting their thing accordingly. And suddenly, hey, presto, you've got the sauce on it all!’ A caffeinated slightly Latin groove becomes the foundation for the sucker singing the Blues in “Love Starvation” while Nick Lowe and the boys draw the story from “Raincoat in the River” with guitar jangle, turn the lights down low to deliver the message of “Blues on Blue”, and bang out an unabashed Garage Rock anthem to tell the story in “I Went to a Party”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
 
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