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Track List
01) Peter Pan R.I.P
02) Ophelia
03) Modern Blues
04) Only Love
05) All Dressed Up (and Ready to Fall in Love)
06) Cavalry
07) Ruby
08) Figure It Out
09) Barbara Ella
10) When a Brave Needs a Maid
11) To Wait Till I Come
12) Winter's Call
01) Peter Pan R.I.P
02) Ophelia
03) Modern Blues
04) Only Love
05) All Dressed Up (and Ready to Fall in Love)
06) Cavalry
07) Ruby
08) Figure It Out
09) Barbara Ella
10) When a Brave Needs a Maid
11) To Wait Till I Come
12) Winter's Call
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3:07
3:48
3:12
3:30
2:02
3:06
3:32
3:44
2:43
2:58
6:29
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2010
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Pilgrims Progress is the fourth studio album by Kula Shaker and was released on 28 June, 2010. The first single to be taken from the album was "Peter Pan R.I.P", which was made available to download as an MP3 from the band's website on 22 April, 2010. A three track "Peter Pan R.I.P" EP was later made available on the iTunes Store on 18 June, 2010. The album's title is a deliberate misspelling of John Bunyan's story, The Pilgrim's Progress.
Pilgrims Progress was released in three different versions: a standard twelve track album; a limited edition deluxe box set, with a bonus CD of unreleased songs and demos; and a super deluxe box set, featuring the regular deluxe package, along with an a vinyl LP of the album and a T-shirt. The super deluxe edition is limited to 300 copies and is signed by the cover artist Chris Hopewell.
The CD album artwork for the standard twelve track album erroneously lists three bonus tracks that do not actually appear on the album.
The album has been well received by fans and critics alike, becoming their best reviewed album since their debut K.
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A very decent fourth album which might even win them some new fans.
A band that most critics would certainly kick out of bed and quite possibly down the stairs too, Kula Shaker have little to lose in terms of reputation. The band were something of an awkward oddity in their day, sitting cross-legged between surfy honkers Reef and Weller worshippers Ocean Colour Scene in the charts, putting out radio-friendly psychedelic indie and irritating the bejesus out of journalists. Their fourth album (the last was three years ago – don’t you remember?) is blessedly free of the weight of expectation that so burdens others. But is it any good? It’s not bad.
Peter Pan R.I.P. is a pleasant opener – a little twee (with a lower-case T), but agreeable. Ophelia and Only Love are gentle and pretty. Much of the album tends towards the acoustic, and although this is often shorthand for maturity, well, this stuff is mature. Critics loathed Crispian Mills for his earnestness and privilege, but if the earnestness remains there isn’t a great deal of ego apparent.
Kula Shaker were never about forging ahead creatively, to put it politely, and it’s hard to bat away the prominent references that rise like steam from the songs, especially when some hooks sound directly pilfered (All Dressed Up inescapably resembles Long Train Runnin’). There’s a whiff of eau de Dylan about much of it, although there’s also a healthy hint of Badly Drawn Boy.
The mystical elements that made journalists wince when the band were at their popular peak are still in evidence, if more subtle – sitar-esque strings pop up here and there, but there’s nothing approaching Govinda levels. It’s generally inoffensive and often very catchy, and if the band are derivative and musically scattered then they are at least true to themselves.
But Pilgrim’s Progress ends clunkily – the meandering guitar-strangling caterwaul of Winter's Call is apparently meant to serve as a grand majestic finish, but sounds more like session musicians titting about trying to outdo each other in wide-eyed instrumental keening. However, overall it’s a very decent album which might even win them some new fans.
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Pilgrims Progress is the fourth studio album by Kula Shaker and was released on 28 June, 2010. The first single to be taken from the album was "Peter Pan R.I.P", which was made available to download as an MP3 from the band's website on 22 April, 2010. A three track "Peter Pan R.I.P" EP was later made available on the iTunes Store on 18 June, 2010. The album's title is a deliberate misspelling of John Bunyan's story, The Pilgrim's Progress.
Pilgrims Progress was released in three different versions: a standard twelve track album; a limited edition deluxe box set, with a bonus CD of unreleased songs and demos; and a super deluxe box set, featuring the regular deluxe package, along with an a vinyl LP of the album and a T-shirt. The super deluxe edition is limited to 300 copies and is signed by the cover artist Chris Hopewell.
The CD album artwork for the standard twelve track album erroneously lists three bonus tracks that do not actually appear on the album.
The album has been well received by fans and critics alike, becoming their best reviewed album since their debut K.
User Album Review
A very decent fourth album which might even win them some new fans.
A band that most critics would certainly kick out of bed and quite possibly down the stairs too, Kula Shaker have little to lose in terms of reputation. The band were something of an awkward oddity in their day, sitting cross-legged between surfy honkers Reef and Weller worshippers Ocean Colour Scene in the charts, putting out radio-friendly psychedelic indie and irritating the bejesus out of journalists. Their fourth album (the last was three years ago – don’t you remember?) is blessedly free of the weight of expectation that so burdens others. But is it any good? It’s not bad.
Peter Pan R.I.P. is a pleasant opener – a little twee (with a lower-case T), but agreeable. Ophelia and Only Love are gentle and pretty. Much of the album tends towards the acoustic, and although this is often shorthand for maturity, well, this stuff is mature. Critics loathed Crispian Mills for his earnestness and privilege, but if the earnestness remains there isn’t a great deal of ego apparent.
Kula Shaker were never about forging ahead creatively, to put it politely, and it’s hard to bat away the prominent references that rise like steam from the songs, especially when some hooks sound directly pilfered (All Dressed Up inescapably resembles Long Train Runnin’). There’s a whiff of eau de Dylan about much of it, although there’s also a healthy hint of Badly Drawn Boy.
The mystical elements that made journalists wince when the band were at their popular peak are still in evidence, if more subtle – sitar-esque strings pop up here and there, but there’s nothing approaching Govinda levels. It’s generally inoffensive and often very catchy, and if the band are derivative and musically scattered then they are at least true to themselves.
But Pilgrim’s Progress ends clunkily – the meandering guitar-strangling caterwaul of Winter's Call is apparently meant to serve as a grand majestic finish, but sounds more like session musicians titting about trying to outdo each other in wide-eyed instrumental keening. However, overall it’s a very decent album which might even win them some new fans.
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