Track Listing

1. But California
2. Weird Friendless Kid
3. My People
4. Til The End
5. Pay Later
6. Broken
7. There's Going To Be Someone
8. Whatever Makes You Sick
9. Time To Fall
10. If You Run
11. Pull Me Through
12. Our Turn Will Come

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10021 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Anthems For The Common Man
Mr White has always been a writer of distinction.
It's good to hear his very fine songs coming out
of his own mouth rather than the mouths of others.

What a splendid collection this is. Irrepressibly
English even when his subject is California.
Listen to the voice and diction on 'Weird Friendless Kid'
for immediate ellucidation. A man not afraid to be
himself for a moment. A complete joy in fact !

The tunes are all strong, organically light-handed;
the lyrics observant, whistful and loaded with pathos.

'My People' is an anthem for the lonely man; the acutely
personal becomes universal in the epic chorus. A real gem.

'Broken', too, is saturated with honest emotion. The string
arrangement here, as elsewhere, is particularly beautiful.
Music of grand gesture but never less than humanly grounded.

The intimate insights of 'There's Going To Be Someone' are
almost unbearable in their vivid depiction of real people
struggling with real feelings . The polar opposite of Soap.

'Time To Fall' looks failure in the face without fear.

'If You Run' raises the prospect of more hopeful possibilities.

'Pull Me Through', however, is nothing less
than terrifying in its unremitting intensity.

Loss. Hope. Despair. Love. Loss Again.

A profoundly honest but ultimately uplifting album.

Uncompromising and magnificent.

Essential.

Based on the first single "Broken"
This is EG White, amazingly remembered from last nights journey home listening to the radio. The first single "Broken" was played and I have waited all day to get hold of an advanced copy from my friend and cannot wait to hear the album. His voice is absolutely divine! I don't really know much about this guy but I intend to find out. (This is now an updateed review and I have!! - Wow, all the songs he's written for the like of James Morrisson, Will Young and Adele I love, no wonder I like his style. He's written some of the best pop songs ever recorded and this album promises to be great, especially if the single is anything to go bye. Wow, I can't wait for My 17th!

Superb pop album - buy it now!
Can melancholy be uplifting? It can in this man's hands! I love the way his voice breaks on My People, I love the asides in the lyrics, the way things veer off at the last minute, the swells and the strings, the return of Alice Temple and his voices merging, the English pronunciation, the party down Hendon Way (after he drove on back from Camden?). A tremendously melodic pop album that is also deeply personal and intimate and original. Hurrah! More, please! A bit quicker next time? :)