Tropicana Magazine Jan-Feb 2018 #116: A Start From The Heart
Start fresh in the year of 2018. Expat Educator Ian Temple shares his own unexpected journey in shaping young minds at Tenby Schools; Check out your Chinese Zodiac for some predictions on fortune; Melbourne's Coolest Bars will blow you mind; all that and more this issue.
Start fresh in the year of 2018. Expat Educator Ian Temple shares his own unexpected journey in shaping young minds at Tenby Schools; Check out your Chinese Zodiac for some predictions on fortune; Melbourne's Coolest Bars will blow you mind; all that and more this issue.
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NEWS | MUSIC<br />
Familiar Names, New Tunes<br />
Highly anticipated new releases from some of the biggest names in the scene.<br />
“If you’re old enough, you remember a<br />
different JAY-Z, the JAY-Z who became king<br />
of New York through sheer, sneering, cold,<br />
unemotional, arrogant confidence,”<br />
- Tom Breihan , Stereogum<br />
HIGH FLYING BIRDS<br />
NOEL GALLAGHER<br />
Noel Gallagher’s third<br />
solo album with High<br />
Flying Birds, Who Built<br />
<strong>The</strong> Moon? has already<br />
garnered some great<br />
reviews ahead of its<br />
release in November 2017.<br />
<strong>The</strong> former Oasis<br />
member took two years<br />
on this album as a follow<br />
up to 2015’s Chasing<br />
Yesterday and features<br />
collaborations with Paul<br />
Weller and former <strong>The</strong><br />
Smiths guitarist Johnny<br />
Marr who plays guitar<br />
and harmonica leads in If<br />
Love Is <strong>The</strong> Law.<br />
While Gallagher’s<br />
latest album provides<br />
a more upbeat tempo<br />
compared to his previous<br />
solo works, it still carries<br />
the same bold voice,<br />
rhythms and sing-along<br />
anthems familiar to Oasis<br />
fans.<br />
RED PILL BLUES<br />
MAROON 5<br />
Three time Grammy<br />
award winners Maroon<br />
5’s latest album Red Pill<br />
Blues doesn’t disappoint.<br />
With special appearances<br />
by A$AP Rocky, Julia<br />
Michaels and Kendrick<br />
Lamar among others, the<br />
15 track album features<br />
catchy singles such as<br />
What Lovers Do and the<br />
mega hit Don’t Wanna<br />
Know which was ranked<br />
top 10 in 10 different<br />
charts in different<br />
countries.<br />
<strong>The</strong> album stays true<br />
to the band’s upbeat,<br />
dance driven tunes but<br />
with a bit more electronic<br />
inspiration thrown in this<br />
time.<br />
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE<br />
U2<br />
As a follow up to their<br />
2014 hit album, Songs of<br />
Innocence, U2 is releasing<br />
their 14th studio album<br />
taking inspiration from<br />
Irish poet, novelist and<br />
Trinity College Dublin<br />
Professor Emeritus<br />
Brendan Kennelly’s advice<br />
to lead singer Bono to “write<br />
as if you’re dead”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> result is an album<br />
with tracks that are a lot<br />
more personal and intimate<br />
than the band’s former<br />
work. <strong>The</strong> album is quite<br />
melancholy too, especially<br />
on tracks such as You’re the<br />
Best Thing About Me and<br />
the opening track, Love is<br />
All We Have Left. It’s a new<br />
yet familiar side to U2 that<br />
will definitely be a delight<br />
to their loyal fans.<br />
Our Pick...<br />
PACIFIC DAYDREAM<br />
WEEZER<br />
One year after the<br />
release of their<br />
White Album,<br />
Weezer has released<br />
Pacific Daydream,<br />
their 11th studio<br />
album filled with<br />
lyrics reminiscent<br />
of days spent at the<br />
beach with track names like Mexican Fender, Beach<br />
Boys and Feels Like Summer.<br />
In the opening track, Mexican Fender, Weezer<br />
frontman Rivers Cuomo was inspired by a cute nerdy<br />
girl at the popular musical instrument repair shop<br />
Truetone in Santa Monica, only to find out she isn’t<br />
single. Such is the emo-pop lyrics and melodies that<br />
remain true to the American band’s alternative rock<br />
tunes from their previous work, only this time, with<br />
a heavier Californian pop-rock influence that almost<br />
mimics Beach Boys-esque riffs.<br />
CURATED BY SHARMINI M.RETHINASAMY<br />
25 JANUARY/FEBRUARY <strong>2018</strong> | TM