About Time

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The Stranglers include: J.J. Burnell (vocals, bass).
Because the Stranglers went over a decade and a half with the same lineup--making them by far the longest-lived of the original British punk bands--it was widely assumed that when singer Hugh Cornwell left for a solo career in the early '90s, the group would simply split up. Instead, J.J. Burnel, Jet Black and Dave Greenfield hired two new guys, singer Paul Roberts and guitarist John Ellis, and started a new phase of their career with 1993's IN THE NIGHT. That album's follow-up, 1995's ABOUT TIME, integrates the two new members more fully into the band, with the result that while this is still recognizably a Stranglers album--Burnel's hyperactive bass playing remains the group's sonic signature--it's definitely a new and different Stranglers. Roberts's Bowie-like croon and Ellis's slashing guitar style are more recognizably "punk" than anything the Stranglers had previously delivered, and Roberts's lyrics are less confrontational than Cornwell's had often been.