Rudebox (CD)
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RUDEBOX sees Robbie Williams collaborating with an array of musical mavericks including his heroes the Pet Shop Boys, King of ambient William Orbit, fellow Stoke natives Danny Spencer & Kelvin Andrews AKA Soul Mekanik, disco-house icon Dave ‘Joey Negro’ Lee, chart topping pop star Lily Allen and NYC-based DJ cum-Über producer Mark Ronson, on both new original compositions and covers of some of his favourite tracks by artists as diverse as Manu Chao, The Human League, My Robot Friend, Lewis Taylor and old friend Stephen Duffy, that through its 16 tracks RUDEBOX marks out and charts his musical loves and life. Led off by the title track and first single RUDEBOX, a nasty, dirty, bass infused electro-funk-pop monster, twisted around his own unique visceral lyrical stylings, the result is the sound of our Rob jamming the electro-boogaloo on a bustling New York street corner in 1983. “Viva Life On Mars” is the world’s country-space-funk-Technicolor-pop anthem. “She’s Madonna” see’s Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe & RW forming their super-group and paying lovelorn homage to the first lady of pop, they also cover their Pet Shop Boys cover of My Robot Friend’s “We’re The Pet Shop Boys”, as we all know an imitation of an imitation is the very highest form of flattery. RUDEBO, the subject of much speculation, (“the dance album”//“the rap album” // “the Christian rock album” yada yada yada and not the two fingers to his catalogue as some might suggest!!) see’s RW on a musical journey of sorts, imbibed with a real sense of fun. Lyrically it is very broad; humorous, historical, honest and revealing, a rollercoaster that takes you from introverted to extravagant, the break up to the make up. This is perhaps the most definitive Robbie Williams opus to date, ten years down the line into his solo career, as his truest personal and musical inspirations collide to create an intimate and explorative sound that will surprise some, but after eight albums, this here is the sound of Robert Peter Williams, born 1974 in Stoke On Trent, UK.
