8 The Fireman Electric Arguments

ONE LITTLE INDIAN 2008, £4.99

You say: “His most creative, least self-conscious album of the 21st century.” Billy Bell, Twitter

The product of a smash-andgrab/autowriting approach where Macca would arrive at his Fireman partner Youth’s home studio, and riff over the latter’s prepared loops, in a breathless rush of spontaneity. It was a modus operandi that both thrilled and terrified McCartney but forced him to write from the gut rather than the head. In contrast to their previous two abstract and ambient Fireman albums together, Electric Arguments was vocal-based and followed more trad song structures, but remained playful, dreamy and audibly liberating. See particularly the lightly trippy reverie Sun Is Shining and the yearning folk rock of Sing The Changes.