The Zutons - You Can Do Anything

A return to safe ground

Album Review by Neal Parsons | 02 Jun 2008
Album title: You Can Do Anything
Artist: The Zutons
Label: Deltasonic
Release date: 2 Jun

If you ask me, The Zutons avoided the problem of a difficult third album by making such a pig's ear of the second one. Thus, You Can Do Anything has a delightfully relaxed feel to it, with the group crafting songs which, whilst never entirely departing from their Merseybeat heritage, do occasionally stray beyond those origins. The playful menace which added such an interesting dynamic to their first album - the Mercury nominated Who Killed…The Zutons? - is present once more on opener Harder And Harder and Family Of Leeches. Varying their sound in this way gives breathing room for the lilting ballads on show, like Dirty Rat. Elsewhere, there is plenty of wry humour and tales of scoundrels and heartbreakers, smothered in the usual sax and simple guitar solo action, making this more a return to safe ground than a change of ethos to support the daring suggested by the LP's title.

 

The Zutons play T In The Park, Balado on 13 Jul

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