Ian Brown Golden Greats CD

Personnel includes: Ian Brown (keyboards, drums); Tim Wills, Aziz Ibrahim (guitar); Audrey Riley (cello); Anif Akinola (keyboards, drums); Dave McCracken (keyboards, percussion); Sylvan Richardson Jr. (bass); Simon Wolstencroft (drums).
Recorded at Sarm East, Sarm West, and Metropolis Studios, London, England.
The enhanced portion of this CD contain 3 music videos.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Ian Brown (vocals, drums); Aziz Ibrahim, Tim Wills (guitar); Audrey Riley (cello); Anif Akinola (keyboards, drums); Dave McCracken (keyboards); Sylvan Richardson Jr. (bass guitar); Simon Wolstencroft, Dan Bierton, Diego Uma (drums); Inder Mathuru (percussion).
Whatever its flaws, Ian Brown's debut album, Unfinished Monkey Business, suggested that he was the true visionary behind the Stone Roses, providing the wild mercurial ideas that were grounded by John Squire's classicist song structures. Its sequel, Golden Greats, confirms that notion. Less song-oriented than its predecessor and overflowing with neo-psychedelic sonic textures and dance beats, Golden Greats floats between dazzling peaks and unformed, unrealized ideas that are nonetheless quite intriguing. Some may miss the clear hooks that characterized the Stone Roses (and even parts of Unfinished Monkey Business), but Brown sounds revitalized here and the result is a fresh, frequently exciting record. True, it can get a little indulgent and it's not quite cutting edge (no matter how much he wishes ...