Justin Currie What Is Love For Music
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indoremanDec 2011

Remember Del Amitri?

The group is on hold apparently; with no record contract after 2002’s “Can You Do Me Good? “
This is lead singer and major songwriter Justin Currie's exquisite debut solo album released in 2007.
Over the years I’ve ended up owning most of the group’s albums.
I was a little surprised to discover a really good review of Justin’s album in Mojo magazine.

The man is an incredible wordsmith, amazing songwriter, great vocalist and talented multi-instrumentalist.

This album has become a real favourite!

1. What Is Love For?
2. Not So Sentimental Now
3. Walking Through You
4. Something In That Mess
5. If I Ever Loved You
6. Only Love
7. Gold Dust
8. Out Of My Control
9. Where Did I Go?
10. Still In Love
11. "No, Surrender."
12. In The Rain

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The stunning solo debut from the founder and voice of DEL AMITRI.

"More than anything, I think that these songs represent the end of my youth," Justin Currie says of What Is Love For, his first solo album and his Rykodisc debut. "I wanted to allow my world-weariness to roam unchecked. And I wanted to be straight about love about how I can't explain it, control it or figure it out."
As lead singer and main songwriter of Scottish rock/popsters Del Amitri, Currie established an enviable reputation for sterling melodic craftsmanship and pithy, forthright lyrics. What Is Love For maintains those qualities, while achieving impressive new levels of musical and emotional immediacy.

"For me," Currie states, "the song 'What Love Is For?' sums up this record, in that it's ostensibly bleak, but underneath, there's a Morse code melody that's telling you something else. "

What Is Love For features 11 Currie compositions whose pensive meditations on love's darker margins are supported by spare, organic arrangements. Such numbers as "Not So Sentimental Now," "Walking Through You," "If I Ever Loved You" and the haunting title track confront their thorny subject matter with a compelling blend of hard-won insight and pointed humor.