You Paint The Pictures is Ian M Bailey's latest home recorded album, a follow on from last year's excellent Songs To Dream Along To, as with that album it's co-written with Daniel Wylie from the Cosmic Rough Riders, all recorded by Ian with the string section provided by Alan Gregson.
The album opens with the title song You Paint The Pictures that has a very early 1970's power pop feel to it, this has gorgeous vocals with uplifting harmonies behind, as the gently evocative music accentuates the lyrics questioning how we find solutions for where we are now, can we bring change in the way the seasons change.
I Wanted The Sun To Shine has detailed Byrdsian guitars and hopeful lyrics wanting to find a way for everyone to care a bit more, as they let this all sink in nicely. As the pictures painted lyrically conjure up some lovely imagery.
The Year Of The Tiger is built around the keyboards that have been stolen from The Doors, this is 3 minutes you could easily mistake for The Doors.
I Don't Want To Start Again really sounds like Ian wants things to go back to how they were before it all went wrong, you can put your own date on that, but it sounds like his happy place is the very early 70's or late 60's, this is carefully constructed giving no hints that it was made in this millennium and not the last one.
Dreams Of Love is a hazy glazy gentle caress to seduce the love of his life, as well as making us all love each other far more than we have been doing in recent years.
Brazil actually opens sounding more like Spooky than Brazil, but Ian sings about wanting to be free to go and live in Brazil, which considering that countries current political turmoil might not be a dream totally in sync with reality, that said this is yet another really nice song to listen too repeatedly.
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Life Without You is a song whose title feels very 2020's, as lots of us have gone through all sorts of loss, Ian contemplates what life would be like without his greatest love, as another pristine Byrds meets Bread power pop song with a delicious organ part unfurls.
Hey Little Girl sounds like the more orchestral end of Chris Bells I Am The Cosmos, a beautiful song of love for his daughter, the strings add beauty this is the song that will embarrass his daughter every time she hears it, until she's in her forties and suddenly gets just how soppy dad is being.
Lovers Song is slow almost acoustic seductive paisley folk song. The album closes with Sitting In Silence a song about trying to find the words to express the emotions to get past the disagreements and put aside the pain, how can there be pain is such gentle beautiful music as this.
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