“When you think of Paul Weller, you do not picture him on Hollywood’s notorious Sunset Strip. Baked either by the sun or lurid neon, a tourist hell trading on successive eras of American nightlife notoriety – 40s gangsters, 80s hair metallers – it is not the sort of locale where anyone, let alone a scion of precision-cut, post-mod cultural rectitude, should find inspiration. And yet his 15th solo ”
“Paul Weller hits a creative peak, continuing a skyward trajectory”
“his 26th record is a bold and forward-thinking new statement”