![]() ![]() ![]() In the closing “Winter Bird/When Winter Comes,” over one of the collection’s few examples of un-over- dubbed finger-picking, McCartney sings about how he needs to fix a fence to keep out the foxes because “the lambs and the chickens won’t feel safe until it’s done,” and it’s hard not to think of the photo of him as sheepherder on the cover of “Ram.” The partner who shares his life now has inspired him to flights of romanticism equal to those for the one who shared the album billing back then: “The Kiss of Venus,” sung mostly in his whispery falsetto, is as wonderfully lovestruck as anything he’s ever written. Maybe a third or so of the new record will remind you in some way of that first ’70 solo album, which we might as well go ahead and call “McCartney I,” by virtue of fitting a mode that figuratively or literally seems pastoral. The point is that, as different as “McCartney III” is from “Egypt Station,” it’s also that much different from the techno-pop of “McCartney II” - sorry to say, there is nothing here that reaches the polarizing heights of “Temporary Secretary” (or all-time lows, if you’re just completely on the wrong side of things). Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney Enter Each Other's Quarantine Bubbles for Rolling Stone Conversation Idris Elba Interviews Paul McCartney for BBC Holiday Special Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Remember John Lennon on 40th Anniversary of His Death Because when it comes to that, “III” doesn’t really have one - it’s all over the place, and delightfully so, even if he occasionally lands upon a subgenre that you wish he stuck with for more than a song or two. “McCartney III” is almost nothing but the quirks, undertaken in isolation with an initial intended audience of probably just one: a certain Sussex vegan sheep farmer who must’ve realized by April or May that he’d rather spend the pandemic woodshedding than shearing.Īs probably every fan has heard or figured out by now, “McCartney III” is a sequel to 1970’s “McCartney” and 1980’s “McCartney II” in name, methodology and year-ending-in-zero only, and not so much in style. 1 on the charts (which it did) but provide fresh set-list grist that wouldn’t have stadium bathroom queues forming all at once. Paul mccartney ram full#His previous release, 2018’s “Egypt Station,” created with a full band and big-name producers like Greg Kurstin and Ryan Tedder, had its quirks but was clearly designed as the kind of commercial project that would not just reinstate the former Beatle at No. ![]() If it was quarantine fever that prompted Paul McCartney to return to all-DIY studio mode for his new album, “McCartney III,” it may be the the lack of any looming global tour that really helped set the record’s diverting and loose mood. ![]()
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