PROPELLED by great, big, fat hip hop beats and strident string arrangements (a second disc carries a lush orchestral mix), Brother Brown's fifth solo album may yet achieve its creator's intent and bury his others. Much will depend on how easily you can live with the recurrent whiff of Biblical portents in Brown's stoner sermonising on tracks like The Feeding of the 5000, or the inarguably angry if obvious rhetoric on Illegal Attacks.
Far better are the defiant guttersniping salvos of the assured Goodbye To the Broken and the shamanistic funk of Sister Rose, in which ex-Pistols Jones and Cook are co-conspirators. Andy Rourke, Paul Ryder and Sinead O'Connor also add their two penn'orths, but this is all Ian Brown - voice of a preacher, heart of a lion.
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