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Stray (Expanded)

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A welcome comeback after the flaccid dance-pop of 1987's insipid Love, Stray is among Roddy Frame's most assured and diverse collections of songs. Unlike previous Aztec Camera albums, there's not one unifying style to the disc, and the variety makes Stray one of Frame's better collections. From the assured rocking pop of the singles "The Crying Scene" (the closest thing Aztec Camera ever got to an American hit single) and "Good Morning Britain" (a rousing collaboration with Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite) to the cool, Chet Baker-ish cocktail jazz of "Over My Head," Frame covers the waterfront, but it's the quartet of songs that constitutes the second half of the album that impress the most. These four songs, "How It Is," "The Gentle Kind," "Notting Hill Blues," and the tender acoustic closer "Song For A Friend," are a loosely connected cycle mingling folk, soul, and pop in varying proportions. Starting with a bitterly cynical denunciation of modern society, the four songs move through sadness and resignation to a hopeful, sweet closure. Shorn of the pretentiousness that mars some of Frame's earlier lyrics -- written, to be fair, while he was still in his mid-teens -- the lyrics on Stray are the first that stand up to Frame's remarkable melodic sense. The simple, low-key production by Frame and Eric Calvi also retreats from the unfortunate excesses of both Love and its misbegotten Mark Knopfler-produced predecessor, Knife. With the exception of Aztec Camera's 1983 debut High Land Hard Rain, this is Roddy Frame's best album.

© Stewart Mason /TiVo

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1
Stray
00:05:36

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

2
The Crying Scene
00:03:37

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd.

3
Get Outta London
00:03:42

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

4
Over My Head
00:05:55

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

5
Good Morning Britain
00:04:03

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd.

6
How It Is
00:04:01

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

7
The Gentle Kind
00:05:34

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

8
Notting Hill Blues
00:06:43

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

9
Song for a Friend
00:02:30

Roddy Frame, Composer, Producer - Simon Dawson, Engineer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Eric Calvi, Producer, Engineer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

10
Salvation
00:05:15

Roddy Frame, Composer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990Warner Music UK Ltd

11
True Colours
00:04:34

Billy Steinberg, Writer - TOM KELLY, Writer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 WEA Records Ltd.

12
Do I Love You
00:04:40

Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Cole Porter, Composer, Lyricist - Sy Oliver, Arranger - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

13
Good Morning Britain (7" Mix)
00:04:13

Roddy Frame, Composer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

14
Good Morning Britain (Kitsch 'n' Sync Mix)
00:07:28

Roddy Frame, Composer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

15
Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypnomental)
00:04:20

Roddy Frame, Composer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

16
Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypno-edit)
00:04:23

Roddy Frame, Composer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990Warner Music UK Ltd

17
Good Morning Britain (Mendelsohn Single Mix)
00:04:07

Roddy Frame, Composer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

18
Good Morning Britain (Morning Acid Mix)
00:03:27

Roddy Frame, Composer - Aztec Camera, MainArtist - Bernie Clarke, Producer - John Brand, Producer

© 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1990 Warner Music UK Ltd

Albumbeschreibung

A welcome comeback after the flaccid dance-pop of 1987's insipid Love, Stray is among Roddy Frame's most assured and diverse collections of songs. Unlike previous Aztec Camera albums, there's not one unifying style to the disc, and the variety makes Stray one of Frame's better collections. From the assured rocking pop of the singles "The Crying Scene" (the closest thing Aztec Camera ever got to an American hit single) and "Good Morning Britain" (a rousing collaboration with Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite) to the cool, Chet Baker-ish cocktail jazz of "Over My Head," Frame covers the waterfront, but it's the quartet of songs that constitutes the second half of the album that impress the most. These four songs, "How It Is," "The Gentle Kind," "Notting Hill Blues," and the tender acoustic closer "Song For A Friend," are a loosely connected cycle mingling folk, soul, and pop in varying proportions. Starting with a bitterly cynical denunciation of modern society, the four songs move through sadness and resignation to a hopeful, sweet closure. Shorn of the pretentiousness that mars some of Frame's earlier lyrics -- written, to be fair, while he was still in his mid-teens -- the lyrics on Stray are the first that stand up to Frame's remarkable melodic sense. The simple, low-key production by Frame and Eric Calvi also retreats from the unfortunate excesses of both Love and its misbegotten Mark Knopfler-produced predecessor, Knife. With the exception of Aztec Camera's 1983 debut High Land Hard Rain, this is Roddy Frame's best album.

© Stewart Mason /TiVo

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