Album Review

CJ Wildheart - MableCJ Wildheart – Mable

Pledge music really seems like the future for musicians these days as so many ditch the hassle of working alongside a record label and instead they reach out to their fans by offering loads of weird, whacky and special things for a price to help fund their music and bands have been offering stuff like receiving the album early, their name on the artwork, a dinner with the musician, a gig played in their house and one band even offered to have the pledges name tattooed on their body and the great thing is so many musicians are smashing their target within weeks or even days of starting their pledge campaign and Mable should know all about that as his band mate Ginger Wildheart holds the record for the quickest and most successful pledge campaign ever so it is no wonder why Mable has chosen to go down this route.

‘Mable’ is the first solo album from CJ Wildheart in 7 years and it is a record which was created in his home studio throughout the summer and winter of 2013 and the final outcome is exactly what you would expect from someone who has dedicated so much of their life writing, recording and touring with The Wildhearts as the album is as big, quirky and catchy as anything in the Wildhearts back catalogue.

The album opens with ‘Better Late Than Never’ and as soon as it kicks you are greeted with a sound so similar to that of previous CJ Wildheart work, the song is short with a big energetic burst and really smooth sounding vocals from CJ Wildheart. ‘Down The Drain’ picks up the pace somewhat and flows for the duration with a big bouncy vibe and once the chorus kicks in things become crazily catchy.

‘Next To You’ has serious lastability and is the song the song on the album that I kept finding myself coming back to as once the chorus hits you really know about it as it is seriously the catchiest moment of the whole album and so pleasing on the ears.

You can tell that CJ Wildheart has spent a lot of time creating ‘Mable’ as each of the 11 tracks on the album are so listenable yet so different from each other as one minute you will be listening to the massively catchy ‘Vitriol’ and then the next you will find yourself listening to the whacky ‘Always Believe Her’ and then the slow but heavy ‘Come With Me’.

The Wildhearts have a massive hardcore following and I really hope that they pick up a copy of ‘Mable’ as it is such good offering from the talented song writer that is CJ Wildheart who I sometimes think gets over shadowed by everyone’s favourite ginger northerner Ginger Wildheart.

4/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

CJ Wildheart
 Track Listing

1. Better Late Than Never
2. Down The Drain
3. Next To You
4. Vitriol
5. Always Believe Her
6. Kentucky Fried
7. D.C.
8. Come With Me
9. State Of Emergency
10. Devil
11. Midlife Crisis

 Band Related Links
CJ Wildheart Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?