James Blunt may never live down the success of his first single, “You’re Beautiful.” It made him a star in 2004 yet it also pegged him as the kind of sad-sack singer/songwriter beloved of doctors’ offices the world over, which may be enough to sustain a living but not a career. Blunt is savvy enough to realize this and he started to broaden and enliven his craft fairly quickly, abandoning the slow-footed ballads of Back to Bedlam for a richly textured pop that eventually gained some semblance of color by the time Some Kind of Trouble rolled around in 2010. Three years later, Moon Landing arrived and although its title suggest some kind of spectral scope, it’s not quite as lively as its predecessor, preferring the exquisitely textured adult contemporary pop of Dido, but giving those intricately produced ballads insistent melodies and rhythms. Sometimes, Blunt’s phrasing can lapse into solipsistic moans – this is especially true when the electronics are stripped away and the tempos slow – but when everything is relatively sprightly, the feel is surprisingly appealing, even though Blunt can’t help but piggyback on styles that are a guaranteed rocket to the Top 40. This is most evident on “Bonfire Heart,” a Ryan Tedder collaboration that pounds and stomps in the style of the Lumineers, and there are echoes of Maroon 5 in the octave jumps of “Always Hate Me,” but these pandering lapses – accentuated by an unnecessary tribute to Whitney Houston called “Miss America” – do not detract from an album that is, by many measures, Blunt’s richest and best collection to date.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Face The Sun (4:02)
02. Satellites (3:13)
03. Bonfire Heart (3:59)
04. Heart To Heart (3:30)
05. Miss America (3:06)
06. The Only One (3:44)
07. Sun On Sunday (3:18)
08. Bones (2:51)
09. Always Hate Me (3:38)
10. Postcards (4:49)
11. Blue On Blue (3:53)
12. Telephone (3:26)
13. Kiss This Love Goodbye (2:36)
14. Hollywood (3:24)
EAC extraction logfile from 18. October 2013, 16:49
James Blunt / Moon Landing
Used drive : PLEXTOR CD-R PX-230A Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 738
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:Program FilesExact Audio CopyFlacflac.exe
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log date: 2017-10-19 00:06:25
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Analyzed: James Blunt / Moon Landing (Deluxe)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 0.00 dB -11.29 dB 4:02 01-Face The Sun
DR10 0.00 dB -12.75 dB 3:13 02-Satellites
DR5 -0.18 dB -7.30 dB 3:59 03-Bonfire Heart
DR6 -0.04 dB -9.04 dB 3:30 04-Heart To Heart
DR6 0.00 dB -9.86 dB 3:06 05-Miss America
DR6 0.00 dB -7.92 dB 3:44 06-The Only One
DR13 -0.36 dB -16.70 dB 3:18 07-Sun On Sunday
DR7 0.00 dB -8.63 dB 2:51 08-Bones
DR6 0.00 dB -9.08 dB 3:38 09-Always Hate Me
DR8 0.00 dB -10.69 dB 4:49 10-Postcards
DR7 0.00 dB -11.07 dB 3:53 11-Blue On Blue
DR8 -0.04 dB -10.22 dB 3:26 12-Telephone
DR7 -0.28 dB -10.17 dB 2:36 13-Kiss This Love Goodbye
DR9 0.00 dB -10.65 dB 3:24 14-Hollywood
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 917 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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