Album Review: Paul Weller’s Reveals The True Meanings of Life
Turning 60 years old, Paul Weller is offering some of his most beautiful, thoughtful music. Looking back on life and the relishes it offers in the form of relationships, he is offering us True Meanings.
When you are young, you are learning to experience emotions, while, when you are older, you are learning to emotionally absorb experiences. It is for this reason that elders are not exactly tied to wisdom, but you are more likely to find it within them. As Tony Bennett says, in time, life teaches you how to live it, and True Meanings is a testament to that truth. After awhile, with enough knocks, you learn to relax through pain and ignite for passion. “Soul Searchers,” “Wishing Well,” May Love Travel With You,” and “Come Along,” are the odes to those that time has taught to be open.
Paul Weller – The Soul Searchers (Lyric Video)
We think that, with all our suffering, life teaches us to shut down or off. Yet, Paul Weller’s music reveals that life is only asking you to be more open yourself in the face of all those that close you in. Hence, there is a capacious and compassionate undercurrent to his tender melodies. From “Bowie,” his homage David Bowie, to “Gravity” or “ Glide,” the record seems to dedicated to movement, and the idea that our frustrations are born from our inability to accept that it is life that moves us: we do not move life. Thus, themes of love, grief, dreams, and the eternal battle for optimism course through songs such as, “Books,” “Aspects,” and “Movin On.” Yet, the truest winner of this album is Paul Weller’s voice.
Paul Weller – Movin On (Lyric Video)
Amidst stringed hooks, Paul Weller’s voice is freeing. He has a light smokiness to his vocals that wafts through songs like morning mist. You can smell the fresh grass and feel the warm beginnings of the rising sun throughout his voice, which makes him rise like an awakened presence. True Meanings is not just a record but a testimony. It is the compilation of sound and spirit to elevate that life is journey to discover the richness of its good while combatting the lowliness of its bad. For More Information On Paul Weller And To Buy True Meanings On September 14 Click Here.
Paul Weller – Aspects (Lyric video)
