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Warning: the Verve’s wittily titled fourth album--the first since their reformation in 2007--is no Urban Hymns Part II. That much is clear from the album’s first single "Love Is Noise," a punchy-yet-addictive propulsive rocker, but it’s a fact underlined several times on the remainder of the album. Taking a determined stroll along the boulevard of experimentalism, the band mix up their slick strings and ringing guitars with dense drums and murky soundscapes for this comeback album. Opening cut “Sit and Wonder” sets the tone: a lurching, bluesy tune with a loose, jam-session feel that maintains its groove for almost seven minutes. The soaring (and shorter) “Rather Be,” the dreamy “Judas” and the plodding “I See Houses” bring us closer to the classic Verve sound, but the retreat into moody psychedelia continues anew with “Numbness,” the intense “Noise Epic” and the kaleidoscopic, Can-like “Colombo”. Despite these darker moments being indulgently drawn-out at times they serve to raise the more euphonious moments--surprise anthems like “Valium Skies” included--to even more heavenly realms, and create a compelling chiaroscuro along the way. --Danny McKenna
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It will be interesting to see if we get any reviews based on a year or two's listening. I'm not that patient, but I hope somebody will be as it's that kind of album. All kinds of expectations ran ahead of it, and many of the reviews so far are really reactions based on that.
Verve, for me, were always the Verve of the first album: Blue, Butterfly etc: the spaced-out freak-out thing. That makes Forth doubly welcome as far as I'm concerned, a return to what Verve are all about.
I don't recall particular tracks drastically 'standing out' on "A Storm in Heaven" any more than they do on this album. I remember a magazine reviewer in 1993 sprinkling the faintest of praise on "A Storm in Heaven", ending limply: 'Nice one lads!' I wonder if he sees it the same way now.
Forget whatever your expectations were, get into it and write that retrospective review in a couple of years' time. Odds on you'll say the whole album's outstanding.
Verve, for me, were always the Verve of the first album: Blue, Butterfly etc: the spaced-out freak-out thing. That makes Forth doubly welcome as far as I'm concerned, a return to what Verve are all about.
I don't recall particular tracks drastically 'standing out' on "A Storm in Heaven" any more than they do on this album. I remember a magazine reviewer in 1993 sprinkling the faintest of praise on "A Storm in Heaven", ending limply: 'Nice one lads!' I wonder if he sees it the same way now.
Forget whatever your expectations were, get into it and write that retrospective review in a couple of years' time. Odds on you'll say the whole album's outstanding.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I was never a Verve fan as such, but I have had Urban Hymns since its release and it's is one of my favourites. Forth is good but by no means great. It starts off well, the first few songs are excellent, particularly Rather Be and Love is Noise, but then it loses its way until the brilliant Valium Skies. So I give it four stars, were it not for the rather poor middle, I'd have happily given five stars. This is only my opinion, this one looks like one of those CD's that is 'like marmite', if you know what I mean.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I liked the big anthems from the Verve's earlier days but that was about it. My interest reignited when I saw Richard Ashcroft perform so well at Live 8, purchasing his solo album.
I was almost put off this CD because I didn't like the single Love is Noise, but when it was on sale for less than a fiver I couldn't resist. It is quite pleasing on first listen, but like all good things it grows on you more and more. Can't wait for their next disc!
I was almost put off this CD because I didn't like the single Love is Noise, but when it was on sale for less than a fiver I couldn't resist. It is quite pleasing on first listen, but like all good things it grows on you more and more. Can't wait for their next disc!
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Average
Starts off well with the opening track but gradually fades in quality over the tracklist. One for the die hard fans.
Buy the compilation album or urban hymns instead.
Buy the compilation album or urban hymns instead.
Published 17 months ago by Duncan McDonald
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This is a quality cd, that is a must have for any collection. i just absoulutley love it and am so glad the verve came back and left us with this gem.
Published on 25 Aug 2009 by skelibones
at the top of a league of their own!
Turning their back on pop anthems pretty much, a deeper and more cryptic collection of tracks, Ashcroft returns to his bandmates after a reflective few years away. Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2009 by emjay
Just wouldn't let it lie!
The Verve were a big part of the soundtrack to some of the best days of my life back in the 90's,ANothern Soul being one of my favourite albums of all time. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2009 by R. J. Mitchell
Fantastic
"Forth" brings The Verve back with a bang, bringing in new fans whilst retaining old. "Love is Noise", the first single, is the kind of driving anthem that will stick in your head... Read more
Published on 27 April 2009 by Cedders
Forth is excelent
As good as the Bitter Sweet album. A bit wandering in places, but suggest improvisation.
Published on 8 April 2009 by DE
Takes some time to get it. but you can!
First time I heard it I thought, "Richard Ashcroft solo, with a few psychedelic touches". Tenth time I heard it, the subtleties started to appear. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2009 by Howard Change
Don't let it get you down
This is a great album from a great band. I am glad that The Verve got back together to make this. I'm also glad I bought this album as it was a real pleasure to listen to the first... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2009 by D. Ashford
A very pleasing album
I don't know why so many people are panning this album. Must be the destructive urge to reference every artist's most recent music to the past. Dangerous and futile. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2009 by Namuncura
forth gets four
the verves comeback after a decade away is an album that seems to have divided fans.i think its great to have them back,nick mccabe is a genius and ashcrofts voice is better than... Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2008 by M. black
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