Product Description

'You Can Do Anything' is the third album from cosmic scousers The Zutons. Yet another dose of ska'd up indie rock from the Liverpool five-piece, and one that manages to sound evenmore assured and soulful than their 2006 album 'Tired Of Hanging Around'. Includes the single 'Always Right Behind You'.

Track Listing

1. Harder and Harder
2. Dirty Rat
3. What's Your Problem
4. You Could Make The Four Walls Cry
5. Family Of Leeches
6. Don't Get Caught
7. Bumbag
8. Always Right Behind You
9. Put A LIttle Aside
10. Freak
11. Give Me A Reason
12. Little Red Door

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1296 in Music
• Released on: 2008-06-02
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk review
The royalties must have seemed tempting at the time--hell, they still must--but it’s got to feel galling to have written and recorded one of the genuinely great modern British soul songs, only to have it stolen from you and paraded in new bling from every speaker and screen. Anyone still under the impression that Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse cooked up the all-conquering "Valerie" themselves would be well advised to delve back into The Zutons’ small but stocky back catalogue for further gems and trinkets. Of course, it’s not all perfect--the fact that The Zutons are so very overcooked is both their appeal and their Achilles heel. There is generally too much in the way of cod-poetic sub-Beautiful South storytelling and bad jokes, too much throttled yelping, far too much saxophone and too little subtlety. But when the surplus is skimmed aside, what's left can form an indie-soul revue to knock your novelty socks off. Examples on You Can Do Anything include the hammering vocal back-and-forth of "Harder And Harder", the colourful, anthemic "Always Right Behind You" bouncing off Slade’s bell-bottoms and the riff-heavy Mott The Hoople-esque "Family Of Leeches". They’re still essentially The Coral in lounge suits, Gomez without the Americana infatuation, but they’ll be having the last laugh: on this evidence, they're a good few years away from the cruise ship circuit. --James Berry

Customer Reviews

They can do anything
'You Can Do Anything', the Zutons' third studio album, isn't an album that you can listen to once or twice and appreciate, this is a collection of songs which only reveal themselves when you've had this on your stereo system a good few times and then, all of a sudden, on your fourth or fifth play you find yourself really enjoying it all, immensely. There's nothing on this album which is likely to capture the general music-listening public's imagination in the same way as 'Valerie', for example, but at least that means that Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson won't be able to pilfer anything from this album and then have lots of people thinking that they wrote it. Don't get me wrong, though - there are lots of extremely catchy guitar and sax hooks, toe tapping, head nodding songs which fans of the last two albums will certainly appreciate, such as the brilliant 'What's Your Problem' and the superb minor verse/major chorus 'Family Of Leeches'.

'Don't Get Caught' is possibly my favourite song on 'You Can Do Anything' - I just love the creative chord progression at the end of the chorus and, although the comparisons probably get a little tiresome, this song sees The Zutons sounding more like The Coral than anywhere else on the album. The more you listen to this, the more you realise just how good this album is and what a rich bunch of compositions and performances these are. Other standout tracks include the soul/blues of 'Bumbag', the upbeat, pop-leanings of 'Always Right Behind You' and the brilliantly raw opener 'Harder and Harder'. Despite having a new guitarist, there is no new Zutons sound, nor is there anything but a continuation of the style of music which has won them a lot of fans, but the quality control on this album is high and they have delivered possibly their most consistent album and most rewarding listen to date. It's a wonderful mixture of blues, soul, indie-rock and pop, an excellent, fun album from start to finish and I'd recommend it - my new favourite Zutons album - highly.

Simply great
This is guitar music of the finest quality, if you like this band`s early stuff then you`ll love this. Absolutely brilliant.

Fantastic!
I totally agree with all the reviews already written here. Yes after playing the previous album to death on our holiday and thinking how can they match this........they bleedin well have!

It did take 2-3 proper listens, but now I'm hailing this the best album of the year so far (well until Kings of Leon bring their next CD out in Sept!!)

I keep trying to force myself away from it in the fear of overplaying it. And when I play other music, I can't wait to get The Zutons back in my ears again.

Every track is a winner. Even the weaker ones have some form of brilliance at some point in the track.

Very catchy, brilliant, I recommend it to all.