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Rod has all but put his soothingly
scratchy voice in semi-retirement in recent years, releasing only
covers with his Great American Songbook series and a long-overdue
Christmas album (all things festive sound better in Rod’s voice,
you should definitely invest in ‘Merry Christmas, Baby’ before
December 2013) but his return to song writing has been worth the
wait, and Time is Rod’s first return to the top of the British
album charts since 1976.
There’s still the same old mash-up of
soulful lyrics and radio-friendly pop arrangements, but with a marked
retrospective attitude seeing the eternally boyish sexagenarian
mulling over lost loves and past mistakes.
Understandably, Time is much mellower
than the stuff he put out in his lothario days of lycra catsuits and
Faces but the bonus tracks at the end of the album offer a fleeting
return to his bluesy roots.
Soft, dad-rock but, Rod’s earned the
right.
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