Back Into Paradise
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Back Into Paradise
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Description
Ben Montague: impassioned songwriter, crowd-pleasing touring artist, eternal optimist and acclaimed custom guitar business co-owner, has penned his most lyrically raw and moving, anthemic and beautifully produced third album. The album was the result of a process of self-belief and affirmation. Writing what should have been a song for another artist with writing partners Jez Ashurst (Gabrielle Aplin, Will Young) and Charlie Grant (Simply Red, Melanie C), Montague found the lyrics for the first of the 10 songs, the searing, emotional We Start Over flooding out. Montague's partner in crime on Back Into Paradise is producer Peter-John Vettese, the singer's 'secret hero' for his programming and arrangement work with Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Dido and Annie Lennox as well as co-writing with Sia, Tom Odell and James Bay. The album also has a defiance to it, summed up in The Meaning, a blistering rock track that would surely have Dave Grohl pumping his fist in encouragement that was written with Rihanna songwriter Tony Bruno. Grohl is an appropriate name to mention in Back To Paradise's context, as it features a stunning cover of Best Of You, which reworks the original hard rock monster into a wracked ballad. I am a big big fan of The Foo's and Dave Grohl. He is a phenomenal song writer and his lyrics are just beautiful. Other notable key figures in the making & writing of the album include Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, Lego House), Martin Brammer (James Morrison, Olly Murs) and Jim Duguid (Paolo Nutini, The Waterboys). The overall narrative of the album is about finding a reason to start again and the redemptive power music can offer. In the track Gonna Love Again, it initially seems a beautiful melody about recovering from heartbreak. But, as Montague smilingly puts it: It's about me putting my arm around my only-slightly-younger self and saying it's all going to work out fine. It's me falling in love with making music again.
Product details
Release Date:
2015-06-15
Publication Date:
2015-06-15
Publisher:
Mwm
