'English Rose' is cast in a new light while 'Carnation' becomes a cinematic-style piece with a Disney-esque harp finale. There's no space here for 'In The City' or 'Town Called Malice' but some of the mellower Jam tracks are here. 'Modfather' Weller became a grandfather in September when his daughter Leah gave birth to a son – and Weller has suggested that this might be why he has avoided some of the anthems of his youth on the new release.
It was recorded in May at London's Barbican, with conductor Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and, with great finesse, it adds sumptuous strings and horns to tracks spanning Weller's entire catalogue! With Buckley's deft orchestrations, all the Weller songs have been framed beautifully. This is his first album of symphonic arrangements. With 'An Orchestrated Songbook', Weller is offering something new and different, yet again. Having been a Beatles and Who-obsessed teenager in his Jam years, Weller developed into an urbane soul performer with the Style Council in the 1980s before launching into his hugely successful, yet never predictable, solo career. This has always resulted in a vitality that few of Weller's peers can ever quite match. One of the joys of Paul Weller's music is the way it reflects his ever-changing moods.
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