James Blunt – Back To Bedlam
The Back To Bedlam Album 2004
Back to Bedlam is the debut studio album from James Blunt. This album was big in many countries.
It was first in Australia released on CD and the CD was fantastic but it lacked depth.
I believe in 2006 the Vinyl was released and this changed the sound quality.
The voice was not as pitchy and lacked midrange on the cd and the music had deeper depth of sound placement which added to a bigger sound stage and higher quality sound in general.
Sound Quality
The Vinyl Sound
This is not the thickest vinyl ever so I was worried. The recording is impressive and adds the extra edge of the tiniest of sounds to add the happy yet depressing words of the music and the tone of the music.
The scratchy sound you hear in his voice sometimes on a cd is more mellowed with a higher midrange which becomes more raspy in a lightway than pitchy and you hear it clearly on the hit single You’re Beautiful.
The James Blunt Sound
The Mood Of Music
Over the recent years some of his music has become less story and more pop. Still good music but he really comes alive when he wants to make you feel something. I think the way the music is set out in his deeper songs play with your emotions and makes it easier to feel the music like in Goodbye My Lover.
The album title tells you that you are in for a strange complicated story and I have heard that the Album name refers to the infamous Bedlam mental institution. This info on infamous Bedlam mental institution may be wrong as I have only heard this in passing.
The feeling in this album and his grown up story telling for his young age I believe comes from his military background. I think this is a major player on why this album sounds the way it does and has a different complex feel in every song.
James Blunt wrote and co-wrote every song on the album.
The Vinyl
The Recording
The Vinyl of this album is a stand point of great albums of the 2000s and the recording changes it from any other version into an audio delight for beginners in vinyl to anyone who just loves music.
The recording if you are a beginner will be able to pick up sounds that have a higher frequency on the album that you can not hear from any other means. It will also allow you to hear the difference of pitch and fequency response. Also due to hearing the songs so often you know them well but then on top of this idea you have the sound in a more pure form.
This is not the best album I have ever heard but it is a solid one with definite variation.
Why This Album Works
This album works as it is multiple genres and instruments and certain mistakes and clever music engineering makes this album work well and worth listening to.
It pushes a boundary but in an area of comfort for you, the industry and James Blunt himself.
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