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Paul Weller's 2012 YepRoc Record Store Day release.  That Dangerous Age b/w The Piper on red vinyl!

Paul is on the cover of this week's NME as part of the "NME Heroes" feature along with Miles Kane! More Details HERE!

The follow-up to 'That Dangerous Age', 'When Your Garden’s Overgrown' features Noel Gallagher on bass guitar and tips it's hat to a certain Syd Barrett: “I think this song’s about Syd Barrett” says Paul. “It’s like, what would it have been like if he hadn’t got into music? If he’d gone off to the continent and just been an artist on the side-street in France. He probably would’ve been happier. There’s some lines in there about the brush strokes of fame and I’m thinking of Syd at the time. He was an artist at heart, not a rock star.” 'When Your Garden’s Overgrown' will be released on Monday 28th May as a Digital EP and will be backed by new tracks 'We Got A Lot' and 'Lay Down Your Weary Burden'. Paul Weller heads off to play a few live dates in New York and Toronto in May. He fits in a smattering of European dates before heading back to the UK to perform at Jodrell Bank on the 24th June, then headlining the Sunday at the Lattitude F...

From Paste Magazine By: Justin Cober-Lake 6.4/10 Paul Weller, with more years and nearly as many albums in his solo career as in The Jam and Style Council combined, has always had some surprises handy, and even his more rock-focused albums have tended to have some detours. With Sonik Kicks, though, he tests even his aesthetic flexibility. The album mixes as many influences as Weller’s ever pulled together. At its best, the album maintains a high level of excitement and energy, but at times the twists give it a manic side that doesn’t quite pull together. Weller pushes the electronic sounds, frequently building mildly abrasive textures and agitating the music. The tones pair well with the song structures, which resist typical pop forms. Opener “Green,” for example, chugs along while Weller delivers almost spoken-word lyrics, occasionally cut by guitar runs or electronic surges before turning into a more meditative series of bloops. That track might have German influences, ...

From Music Week ALBUMS: When it comes to topping the chart, timing is everything. Paul Weller wasn't able to get it right in 2010, when his Wake Up The Nation album debuted at number two, on sales of 52,563, beaten to the punch by AC/DC's unexpectedly big first week for compilation/soundtrack Iron Man 2 - but Weller got it right this week, and tops the chart with follow-up Sonik Kicks taking pole position despite a substantially lower first week sale of 30,269. It is 53 year old Weller's fourth solo number one album, following Stanley Road (1995, on first week sales of 62,603), Illumination (2002, 54,283) and 22 Dreams (2008, 58,924). It comes 30 years to the week after his first number one album, The Gift, as a member of The Jam. Despite their popularity, it was their only number one album, though he returned to the summit as leader of The Style Council with Our Favourite Shop (1985) before pursuing a solo career.

From Pitchfork Media By: Joe Tangari 6.5/10 Paul Weller is restless. I can't think of another way to explain his last three albums, each of which has found him casting outside his usual wheelhouse for material and producing excitingly eclectic records. Sonik Kicks is the latest of these, and it wears its search for new textures in its title. Weller does a lot more with electronic textures than usual here, though that doesn't mean he's gone and produced some kind of exploratory electronic album. Rather, he uses a lot of electronic toys and production tricks to goose the arrangements of what are otherwise pretty basic rock songs. Weller doesn't have to do this. I think Americans can be forgiven for not realizing what a huge star he is in his native Britain, but he has laurels enough to rest on for the remainder of a career (his last two albums charted at No. 1 and 2 respectively in the UK). It could be argued that the Jam alone is laurel enough. That he still ...