A Kind Revolution by Paul Weller
"A Kind Revolution" is the thrteenth solo album by English singer-songwriter and musician Paul Weller, released on 12 May 2015 through Parlophone, Warner Bros. Records. The 13th full-length solo studio release for the British singer-songwriter was co-produced with Jan "Stan" Kybert and features guest appearances from PP Arnold, Madeleine Bell, Boy George, The Strypes' guitarist Josh McClorey, and Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Released almost 40 years to the day that The Jam’s debut arrived, Weller’s latest solo excursion extends an absorbingly experimental stretch of records that began with 2008’s <i>22 Dreams</i>. <i>A Kind Revolution</i> is the warmest album of that run—unflaggingly catchy and optimistic, yet exploratory enough to stretch from punchy cosmic rock (“Nova”) to brooding, Boy George-assisted funk (“One Tear”) and the ruminative psych-gospel of “The Cranes Are Back”. At the tail end of his 50s, the Modfather sounds as invigorated and inventive as ever.
