Be True To Yourself

Joey Molland

Released on 16/10/2020 by Omnivore Recordings
Main artists: Joey Molland
Genre: Rock

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Taking his titular advice to heart, Joey Molland sticks to lush, stately pop music on Be True to Yourself. It could be called Beatlesque, but a more accurate description is Badfinger-esque: he pledges allegiance to his old band's mix of McCartney and Harrison, weaving fuzzy guitar through stately piano chords. Molland has never quite abandoned this sound over the years -- at times, he played it under some iteration of Badfinger's name -- but he's given an invaluable assist on Be True to Yourself by Mark Hudson, a producer who made many of Ringo Starr's latter-day albums quite fetching aural candy. Hudson pulls off the same trick here, enlisting such famous friends as Micky Dolenz and Julian Lennon to give Molland a boost but always keeping the focus on melodies that are alternately bouncy and sweet. It's tight, polished, and accomplished in a way many of Molland's albums rarely are, and that focus helps turn Be True to Yourself into a warm, welcoming coda to the Badfinger guitarist's career.

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Be True To Yourself

Joey Molland

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