Chaos and the Creation in the Backyard
| Paul McCartney
Chaos and the Creation in the Backyard
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is the 14th solo studio album by Paul McCartney, released in 2005. A long time in the making, the set was produced by Radiohead and Beck collaborator Nigel Godrich at George Martin's suggestion. McCartney plays almost all of the instruments, similar to his 1970 album McCartney and the 1980 McCartney II album. In addition, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard marks the first time since 1984's Give My Regards to Broad Street that McCartney was not involved in producing one of his studio albums. -WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is the freshest-sounding McCartney album in years.
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Don Ignacio
Listening to this album for the first time, it was like I saw Elvis return.
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Adrian Denning
A decent album.
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NME
Sadly, as an album it still doesn’t quite work.
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SPILL MAGAZINE
Chaos And Creation In the Backyard is a masterpiece.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Love-struck lushness is replaced with delicately surreal atmospherics, love-struck lyrics with brave examinations.
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The Guardian
What it has is a sense of purpose, lovely tunes in abundance, and charm.
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BBC
a better album than anyone could reasonably expect from a 63-year-old who helped remold not just world popular music but world popular culture.
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SLANT
a messy, altogether ramshackle affair with fleeting moments of brilliance that somehow still manages to keep hope alive.
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ALL MUSIC
Paul in an unusually reflective mode, but he's made a lean, cohesive record that holds together better than his previous latter-day high-water mark, Flaming Pie.
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The New Republic
it is good and not great; that is, it fails to meet the standard McCartney established for his own work some forty years ago.
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sputnik music
If you like the Paul that sings nothing but happy love songs, you may or may not like this album.
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popMATTERS
McCartney delivers one of the strongest records of his long and winding post-Beatles career.
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TREBLE
Chaos has Paul singing songs of what he does best, about love and relationships.
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vintagerock.com
a fair-to-medium-to-pretty-good group of straightforward, clear-thinking tunes.
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NPR
By some estimations, the collaboration has resulted in McCartney's best music in years.
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The Music Box
although Chaos and Creation in the Backyard approaches McCartney’s compositions from a fresh perspective, too often, the thoughts are never completed or brought to fruition.
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entertainment.ie
Subdued, mournful and often very pretty, it comes across as the work of a man coming to terms with a great personal loss, almost as if it's a delayed reaction to the death of his first wife Linda.
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No Ripcord
Chaos is one of the best sounding albums of his career, period.
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erasing clouds
a few really impressive songs and a bunch of rather unmemorable ones.
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Entertainment
The uncluttered sound is classic, immaculate Macca.
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INDEPENDENT
if this is what happens when McCartney quits smoking dope, he might be best advised to bear Bill Hicks' observation in mind, and fire up a fat one at the first opportunity.
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all gigs
He was once inspirational, and then cheesy, now hes conventional.
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