Paul McCartney Is A Fireman Again

10/03/08 3:25pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Paul McCartney tried to make peace between Palestinians and Jews during a recent performance in Tel Aviv, Israel, and now he's coming to the rescue again with The Fireman.

The former Beatles and Wings member and producer Martin "Youth" Glover (The Verve, Depeche Mode) have revived The Fireman and will release Electric Arguments on Nov. 18 through MPL.

The album was recorded in 13 days over the period of almost a year, where the duo wrote and recorded one song per day. A studio source told the U.K.'s The Times newspaper that it sounds "like Arcade Fire meets Led Zeppelin." It's the first Fireman album to feature vocals, but according to a statement, "is in keeping with the genre-hopping spirit of the first two Fireman albums." The lead track, "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight," is said to be about McCartney's ex-wife, Heather Mills.

The Fireman released their first album, Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, in 1994. Rushes followed four years later. Youth also collaborated with McCartney on his Liverpool Sound Collage ambient electronica album, which came out in 2000.

Here are the songs on Electric Arguments:

"Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight"
"Two Magpie"
"Sing The Changes"
"Traveling Light"
"Highway"
"Light From Your Lighthouse"
"Sun Is Shining"
"Dance 'Til We're High"
"Lifelong Passion"
"Is This Love?"
"Lovers In A Dream"
"Universal Here, Everlasting Now"
"Don't Stop Running"