Intensive Care : Special Edition ［CCCDMD+DVD］

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Personnel: Robbie Williams (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Stephen Duffy (guitar, acoustic guitar, autoharp, sitar, harmonica, melodica, keyboards, synthesizer, glockenspiel, glass, shaker, tambourine, percussion, dilruba); Neil Taylor, John Paterno (guitar); Buddy Judge (electric guitar); Greg Leisz (12-string guitar, lap steel guitar, E-bow); John Wittenberg, Alan Grunfeld, Michelle Richards, Sara Parkins, Sarah Thornblade, Armen Garabedian, Josefina Vergara, Berj Garabedian, Charlie Bisharat (violin); Matthew Funes , Roland Kato, Evan Wilson, Denyse Buffum (viola); Dave Bishop (saxophone); Cleto Escobedo (baritone saxophone); Steve Sidwell (trumpet); J. Neil Sidwell, Jeff Babko (trombone); Claire Worrall (piano, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron, background vocals); Jebin Bruni (chamberlin); Maxton G. Beesley, Jr. (synthesizer, vibraphone, percussion); David Farragher, Jerry Meehan (bass guitar); Matt Chamberlain (drums, percussion); Katie Kissoon, Tessa Niles, Gary Nuttall (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Alan Witts; Bob Clearmountain. Recording information: Air Studios, London, England (06/2003-05/2005); Henson Studios, Los Angeles, CA (06/2003-05/2005); Rockband East And West (06/2003-05/2005); The Townhouse, London, England (06/2003-05/2005). Editors: James Tonkin; Andrew Philip. Photographer: Hamish Brown. Despite his constant self-deprecation, Robbie Williams is a shrewd artist, one who can tell when a change is in order. It's impossible to tell if he would have agreed to continue working with producer Guy Chambers had Chambers not been forced out of the chair by money matters, but Williams lost little time in finding another creative partner. Stephen Duffy may not be as fluent in the last 40 years of guitar pop as Chambers is, but he immediately announces a changing of the guard on the first track, "Ghosts," with his ringing guitar and keyboards. And it works, briefly. The trailer single, "Tripping," is a warm, clubby single that slightly resembles "Rock DJ," but sounds like it could find a comfortable home on both adult alternative radio and the dancefloor. Williams goes for the jugular on "Spread Your Wings," an ambitious portrait of a lover's reunion (based, he says, on an alternate view of Human League's "Louise"). His lyrics, however, only sketch in the details, and Duffy's arrangement is a pale shadow of a Smiths song from 20 years earlier. It's possible that the partnership of Duffy and Williams can still bear fruit, but it will require not only better music from Duffy but far better performances from Williams. He rarely even sounds like himself, instead choosing to channel his '80s heroes -- Bono, Morrissey, George Michael, even Tom Jones briefly. It's important to point out that since Intensive Care represents a new direction and a new sound, it is much more interesting than the creatively bankrupt Escapology. [A deluxe edition of Intensive Care added a bonus DVD, which included the video clip for "Make Me Pure" and a documentary.] ~ John Bush
エディション : Special Edition