Tom Jones-Surrounded By Time-CD-FLAC-2021-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : Tom Jones                                         
   Album       : Surrounded By Time                                
    Label       : EMI Records                                        
    Genre       : Rock                                               
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2021-04-30                                         
   Quality     : 737 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 349.17 MB                                          
     Time        : 61:46 min                                          
    Url         : http://https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/sur 
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  1.  I Won't Crumble With You If You Fall                           3:16 
  2.  The Windmills Of Your Mind                                     4:43 
  3.  Popstar                                                        4:00 
  4.  No Hole In My Head                                             4:08 
  5.  Talking Reality Television Blues                               6:29 
  6.  I Won't Lie                                                    4:28 
  7.  This Is The Sea                                                7:11 
  8.  One More Cup Of Coffee                                         3:45 
  9.  Samson And Delilah                                             5:06 
  10. Ol' Mother Earth                                               5:16 
  11. I'm Growing Old                                                4:14 
  12. Lazarus Man                                                    9:10 
     Surrounded by Time is Tom Jones' 42nd album, his first since the   
     passing of wife Linda in 2016. Since 1965, the Welsh vocalist,     
     possessed of a singular booming baritone, has sung almost every    
     form of popular music of all stripes. This is Jones' fourth album  
     with producer Ethan Johns, and includes his manager/son Mark       
     Woodward as co-producer.                                           
     Surrounded by Time differs from Jones' previous outings with       
     Johns, which were rooted in Americana sources. The set opens with  
     a sparsely orchestrated reinvention of Bernice Johnson Reagon's    
     activist classic "I Won't Crumble with You If You Fall." Jones     
     performs the lyric like a gospel preacher atop Neil Cowley's and   
     Johns' layered Moogs, Nick Pini's arco bass, and Dan See's         
     mallets. He follows with a glorious version of Michel Legrand's    
     "The Windmills of Your Mind." His delivery is at once dramatic     
     and resonant, balancing reverie, desire, and pathos, while draped  
     in post-electro sequencers, organ, Moog, and brooding rhythms.     
     Jones chose Cat Stevens' "Pop Star" because it reminded him of     
     his first brush with fame. Johns paints the jagged arrangement     
     with Chamberlins, Mellotrons, DFAM, sitar, and acoustic guitars,   
     providing urgency alongside the singer's joy. Jones offers         
     Malvina Reynolds' topical folk gem "No Hole in My Head" as         
     organ-drenched psychedelic rock, complete with droning tambouras   
     and electric guitars. His take of Michael Kiwanuka's "I Won't      
     Lie" is colored by airy synths, acoustic guitars, bird calls, and  
     satellite sounds. Jones' delivery is uncharacteristically tender,  
     intimate, even vulnerable. The singer renders Mike Scott's "This   
     Is the Sea" with the passionate authority of a blues singer.       
     Acoustic guitars and organ simmer and soar alongside his roaring   
     vocal as the rhythm section (barely) tethers them to earth. The    
     singer reads Bob Dylan's foreboding "One More Cup of Coffee"       
     through the mistakes of his youth. Amid the slurry instrumental    
     swirl, a plodding upright bass exhorts Jones to face his           
     darkness. He surrenders, offering the line "One more cup of        
     coffee before I go/To the valley below" with chilling intensity.   
     Organs, synth pads, Moogs, and guitars paint a spaghetti western   
     backdrop as Jones goes deep on Tony Joe White's "Ol' Mother        
     Earth." He delivers it as a solemn elegy for the planet. Composer  
     Bobby Cole presented Jones with "I'm Growing Old" when the singer  
     was 35; feeling he was too young to sing it then, he promised to   
     cut it when he turned 80. Ambient sonics and disembodied voices    
     float by, then vanish as Jones begins a desolate croon,            
     accompanied only by Cowley's haunted piano. Jones chose Terry      
     Callier's "Lazarus Man" as a set closer. After a spacey            
     electronic intro, silvery guitars, droning bass, Rhodes piano,     
     and thundering drums offer a sonic maelstrom in blues, spiritual   
     soul, and rock. Jones embraces it all, passionately affirming the  
     lyric as a manifesto for whatever time remains to him. Surrounded  
     by Time is magnificent -- it's redolent with wisdom and a raging   
     lust for life that is free of camp. It offers abundant proof that  
     despite the passing of years, Jones has lost none his power or     
     swagger.                                                           

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