Get it here and now! Of course, you should only have a copy of this after you've bought the original and official release   This is meant for a prelisten, as you will understand.

Be quick, working time is limited.

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2XD04K2XHQBSZ0MQ57YVQW9O0H

Cheers Bobber.

'A Certain Softness' has just come on and I'm absolutely loving it!!!!!

Bobber, you are a man of many links.
Again - cheers padre.

I actually heard about 90% of the album now plus the non-album tracks from the cd single but thanks for the link anyway.

I'm here to say that this is Paul's version of XTC's "Apple Venus Vol. 1" -- low-key melancholy. It's sad, and filled with the kind of wistful gorgeousness Macca has only *very occasionally* stumbled across in his later career ('Little Willow' maybe, and a few others). Its almost all slow and pretty, too, with only a very few mid-tempo numbers and none of the embarassing rockers he sometimes puts forward.

Hat's off to Nigel Godrich for the warm production and bringing out the best out of Paul. Actually didn't he produce Sea Change by Beck? A couple of tracks on this has the same kind of feel as that album.

Favorites:

Promise To You Girl
Jenny Wren
Too Much Rain
Comfort In Love
English Tea
Fine Line
Growing Up, Falling Down
Friends To Go

Great, thank you!

Quoted from MagicAlex

Actually didn't he produce Sea Change by Beck? A couple of tracks on this has the same kind of feel as that album.

Oooh, can't wait for my copy of the Macca album to arrive now!! I absolutely LOVE Sea Change!!!

Can't get English Tea and Jenny Wren out of my head!
Went clubbing last night, and that's all I was singing!

When the bass drum (I think) starts during Jenny Wren...great stuff

I like 'This Never Happened Before'...the beginning is a bit like 'Real Love'.
And 'English Tea' sticks in your head.

Quoted from IndicaWalrus

When the bass drum (I think) starts during Jenny Wren...great stuff

Timpani, I think. But I hear ya, I hear ya. That moment is just magical.

I thought Paul was the one playing the horn throughout the song, but no. It would have been fantastic.

My favorites so far are Jenny Wren (he obviously tried to write a new Blackbird here) and English Tea (despite the silly lyrics).

Quoted from MagicAlex

Timpani, I think. But I hear ya, I hear ya. That moment is just magical.

I thought Paul was the one playing the horn throughout the song, but no. It would have been fantastic.

Yes, maybe the most magical moment of the whole album. I guess I rather like Riding To Vanity Fair (correct?) and Jenny Wren as well, though it reminds me more of a song like Little Willow than of Blackbird.

Quoted from Biscuit_Power

My favorites so far are Jenny Wren (he obviously tried to write a new Blackbird here) and English Tea (despite the silly lyrics).

"English Tea" even has the word "Twee" in the lyrics!  

Quoted from Bobber

I guess I rather like Riding To Vanity Fair (correct?)

Yep me too. This track reminds me of the Sea Change album by Beck. It has that same kind of vibe, only much less Nick Drake-y and much less, well, just all-in-all-heavy-and-depressing. Low-key prettiness. And the eclectic production.

Beautiful stuff. Has Nigel Godrich been behind a BAD album?

Quoted from MagicAlex

Beautiful stuff. Has Nigel Godrich been behind a BAD album?

On the DVD, Paul says that Nigel didn't allow him to record any songs that he didn't like... Wow... Gotta have some serious guts for that.