Black - Blind Faith (2015)

Artist: Black (Colin Vearncombe)
Title Of Album: Blind Faith
Year Of Release: 2015
Label (Catalog#): Nero Schwarz [NEROCD19]
Country: England
Genre: Pop, Pop Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 38:22
Upload: XFile

Review by Michael Hann, The Guardian:

Colin Vearncombe will forever be preserved in pop aspic as the maker of 1987’s melancholy worldwide hit Wonderful Life – No 1 in Austria! – but he hasn’t stopped working, despite his not having breached the top 40 for 27 years. Blind Faith, his seventh album under the Black flag, is a marvellous little thing – a less temperamental, less self-regarding cousin to Scott Walker’s first four solo records. Like them, it’s steeped in European balladry, and filled with delicious arrangements – the swooping strings and jazzy shuffles of Womanly Panther are a delight. Vearncombe’s slightly frayed baritone is a perfect match to the music, steering it clear of pomposity, filling it with humanity, even when the regrets well up – “I am not the man you want me to be,” he sings on Not the Man, “Here comes the talking / Slamming doors you then have to throw open.” Pop stardom is a long way in the past for Vearncombe, but Blind Faith is an album by a man very much in control of his gifts.

Tracklist:

01. The Love Show (03:42)
02. Don't Call Me Honey (02:55)
03. Good Liar (03:16)
04. Sleep Together (02:44)
05. Womanly Panther (03:07)
06. Who You Are (02:59)
07. Sunflower (02:14)
08. Not The Man (03:22)
09. Ashes of Angels (02:22)
10. Stone Soup (03:07)
11. When It's Over (02:53)
12. Beautiful (02:32)
13. Parade (03:02)