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Track List
01) I Need
02) Let Me Go
03) Open My Eyes
04) Memories
05) Cold Game
06) No One
07) These Days
08) Sometimes
09) I Used to Have It All
10) Shooting the Stars
11) I Can Never Be
12) Running Away
13) A Change Is Gonna Come
14) I Don't See the Sun
01) I Need
02) Let Me Go
03) Open My Eyes
04) Memories
05) Cold Game
06) No One
07) These Days
08) Sometimes
09) I Used to Have It All
10) Shooting the Stars
11) I Can Never Be
12) Running Away
13) A Change Is Gonna Come
14) I Don't See the Sun
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2012
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Lonely Are the Brave is the debut studio album by English/Irish vocalist/rapper Maverick Sabre. The album was first released on January 27, 2012 in Ireland, which was succeeded by a release in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2012. Three singles preceded its release, "Let Me Go" (July 2011), "I Need" (November 2011) and "No One" (February 2012). Lonely Are the Brave debuted at number-two on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 44,292 copies, also peaking at number-two on the Scottish Albums Chart and number-three on the Irish Albums Chart.
Speaking in December 2011, Sabre explained his reasons for titling the album 'Lonely Are The Brave': "'Lonely Are The Brave' was actually the title of an old movie that I first heard about when I was really young - around 12 or 13 - and I actually thought the feeling captured in that one phrase was amazing, because I feel everybody at some point in their lives needs to be brave to get through loneliness. And, because I thought it also summed up a lotta the emotion behind this album - particularly in terms of where I was at when I was writing a lotta the songs - I just felt as a title it fitted the project really well."
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While the title of this debut album is certainly an astute, if elementary, observation, its contents can’t claim kinship with the sentiment. Not that anything here offends: throughout, our protagonist mixes not-so-gritty street tales with a fusion of pop-soul, rap and reggae tropes which tick myriad mainstream boxes. But with a chosen moniker like that, and such a statement-of-presumed-intent gracing the cover, one can’t help but come away from Lonely Are the Brave with slight chagrin holding position over lasting contentment.
Rather than stand out, the London-born (his place of birth, Stoke Newington, gets a mention on Sometimes) and County Wexford-raised Maverick Sabre is content to fit into established moulds. With Michael Kiwanuka a worthy winner of 2012’s BBC Sound Of, and a precedent set by the all-conquering concept-soul of Plan B, solo male singers recalling Withers and Wonder comprise a valuable commodity for majors looking for the best return on their advance cash. And Sabre – real name: Michael Stafford – slips easily between these two spearheads for contemporary Brit-soul on the smoother cuts contained herein, the likes of Shooting the Stars and These Days.
Frustratingly for anyone looking for depth to these finely delivered stories, there’s a second-hand feel to many a narrative, perhaps a symptom of Sabre’s departure from London aged just four. So Memories, a by-the-book travelogue around the man’s childhood haunts, lacks the edge that anyone growing up to an older age in similar surrounds might’ve brought. He tells of bullying on Sometimes, but given the acts in question took place when he was three one wonders what of inspirational impact happened in the interim – little of note being the immediate concern.
As it happens, there’s plenty of grief conveyed from rather fresher corners of his memory: I Used to Have It All turns the ‘typical’ racism tables to centre on the discrimination experienced by the white man embarking on Sabre’s chosen musical path. While conflict experienced on his journey from beginnings to breakthrough – achieved, partially, via guest vocals on Chase & Status’ Fire in Your Eyes and Professor Green’s Jungle – might’ve been dispelled by acknowledging the long-term commercial success of Eminem (for one), it’s worthwhile highlighting that colour never has been a qualifier of quality. A rather more universal source of pain – thoughts of a lover’s former partner – is cathartically explored on No One, while one’s own relationship shortcomings come into focus on I Can Never Be.
Familiarity is achieved via samples as well as themes: top 20 single Let Me Go hooks itself up to the same Isaac Hayes-sourced motif employed by Portishead on their ever-gloomy Glory Box. Given the constituents, a better title might have been Successful are the Sheep. But with a distinctive voice that’s eerily evocative of 90s Brit-winner Finley Quaye at times, an accomplished consistency throughout and a fine spread of memorable choruses, an absence of brave originality can be overlooked, for now. After all, it took Plan B a second LP to really make his mark.
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Lonely Are the Brave is the debut studio album by English/Irish vocalist/rapper Maverick Sabre. The album was first released on January 27, 2012 in Ireland, which was succeeded by a release in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2012. Three singles preceded its release, "Let Me Go" (July 2011), "I Need" (November 2011) and "No One" (February 2012). Lonely Are the Brave debuted at number-two on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 44,292 copies, also peaking at number-two on the Scottish Albums Chart and number-three on the Irish Albums Chart.
Speaking in December 2011, Sabre explained his reasons for titling the album 'Lonely Are The Brave': "'Lonely Are The Brave' was actually the title of an old movie that I first heard about when I was really young - around 12 or 13 - and I actually thought the feeling captured in that one phrase was amazing, because I feel everybody at some point in their lives needs to be brave to get through loneliness. And, because I thought it also summed up a lotta the emotion behind this album - particularly in terms of where I was at when I was writing a lotta the songs - I just felt as a title it fitted the project really well."
User Album Review
While the title of this debut album is certainly an astute, if elementary, observation, its contents can’t claim kinship with the sentiment. Not that anything here offends: throughout, our protagonist mixes not-so-gritty street tales with a fusion of pop-soul, rap and reggae tropes which tick myriad mainstream boxes. But with a chosen moniker like that, and such a statement-of-presumed-intent gracing the cover, one can’t help but come away from Lonely Are the Brave with slight chagrin holding position over lasting contentment.
Rather than stand out, the London-born (his place of birth, Stoke Newington, gets a mention on Sometimes) and County Wexford-raised Maverick Sabre is content to fit into established moulds. With Michael Kiwanuka a worthy winner of 2012’s BBC Sound Of, and a precedent set by the all-conquering concept-soul of Plan B, solo male singers recalling Withers and Wonder comprise a valuable commodity for majors looking for the best return on their advance cash. And Sabre – real name: Michael Stafford – slips easily between these two spearheads for contemporary Brit-soul on the smoother cuts contained herein, the likes of Shooting the Stars and These Days.
Frustratingly for anyone looking for depth to these finely delivered stories, there’s a second-hand feel to many a narrative, perhaps a symptom of Sabre’s departure from London aged just four. So Memories, a by-the-book travelogue around the man’s childhood haunts, lacks the edge that anyone growing up to an older age in similar surrounds might’ve brought. He tells of bullying on Sometimes, but given the acts in question took place when he was three one wonders what of inspirational impact happened in the interim – little of note being the immediate concern.
As it happens, there’s plenty of grief conveyed from rather fresher corners of his memory: I Used to Have It All turns the ‘typical’ racism tables to centre on the discrimination experienced by the white man embarking on Sabre’s chosen musical path. While conflict experienced on his journey from beginnings to breakthrough – achieved, partially, via guest vocals on Chase & Status’ Fire in Your Eyes and Professor Green’s Jungle – might’ve been dispelled by acknowledging the long-term commercial success of Eminem (for one), it’s worthwhile highlighting that colour never has been a qualifier of quality. A rather more universal source of pain – thoughts of a lover’s former partner – is cathartically explored on No One, while one’s own relationship shortcomings come into focus on I Can Never Be.
Familiarity is achieved via samples as well as themes: top 20 single Let Me Go hooks itself up to the same Isaac Hayes-sourced motif employed by Portishead on their ever-gloomy Glory Box. Given the constituents, a better title might have been Successful are the Sheep. But with a distinctive voice that’s eerily evocative of 90s Brit-winner Finley Quaye at times, an accomplished consistency throughout and a fine spread of memorable choruses, an absence of brave originality can be overlooked, for now. After all, it took Plan B a second LP to really make his mark.
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