Take That Brasil - fórum

Lançamento oficial: 01 de dezembro de 2008.

FAIXAS
01. The Garden
02. Greatest Day
03. Hello
04. Said It All
05. Julie
06. The Circus
07. How Did It Come To This
08. Up All Night
09. What Is Love
10. You
11. Hold Up A Light
12. Here/She Said

Said It All
There are hints of Coldplay and Snow Patrol to this Gary Barlow-sung chugger, which deals with that moment in a break-up where there's "nothing to say at all, nothing to say that matters". It's nothing Take That didn't do on their last album, Beautiful World, but the climax is suitably rousing.

Up All Night
Sung by Mark Owen, this Beatlesy gem skips along from folky verses to 'Shine'-y, harmony-drenched choruses. The whole song's a delight, but the best bit comes when Marky shows his laddish side on the middle 8. "I met this girl last night and she said, 'Why won't you marry me?'" he sings. "Well I'm too young for that, too dumb for that, too tired for that, too proud for that, too cool for that. Would you like to come back to my flat?"

The Garden
Gary Barlow and Mark Owen share lead vocals on this epic, stirring ballad, which is packed with positive messages about love, unity and seizing the day. "This is the life you've been given, so open your mind and start living" goes the chorus. It's 100% sentimental but pretty charming with it.

The Garden
A five minute epic, this is a song that just gets bigger and bigger in sound as it progresses. Beginning with a gentle piano intro and a delicate vocal performance from Mark Owen, soaring strings, marching band-style drums, horns and guitars are all gradually chucked into the mix before it crescendos into its anthemic 'this is the life we've been given, so open your mind and start living' chorus. It's an ambitious track and is exactly the reason why they've been so massive since making their return a couple of years ago.

Greatest Day
You'll have all heard their latest single by now. It's a proper grown-up pop record along the same lines as Rule The World and sees the boys try their hand at a much more complex vocal arrangement than we've heard from them previously. The track is available to download from November 24th and you can check out pictures from the video shoot here.

Said It All
Goodness - they've really gone overboard with the strings on this album! Said It All is a bleak, rock-influenced, break-up anthem which wouldn't have sounded out of place of Snow Patrol's recent album.

Up All Night
Mark Owen takes the lead on this one once again and, while it starts off with just an acoustic guitar and percussion for accompaniment, it morphs into something altogether very different. If we had to compare it to anything, it would be their hit single, Shine crossed with I Can't Decide from Scissor Sisters' second album, Ta-Dah... only with a brass band trumping in the background. We're expecting a great performance of this on their upcoming tour.

1) The Garden
Take That's last album finished with a song about going out to sea in a Wooden Boat, and this album opens with the lyric "And the fisherman came back across the water". It's a continuing narrative, just like Quantum Of Solace! And, to further the parallel with James Bond, Take That are surrounded by "the sound of sirens" and "the scent of burning oil". Yikes!

At this point, you will be wondering "why are Take That banging on about the environment" but then the chorus kicks in with some old nonsense about "laying down in the garden" and ranks of stirring, staccato strings. By the end, you'll have forgotten all about global warming, and decided to have a berry bursy smoothie with Howard Donald.

2) Greatest Day
You know this one already. It's basically Patience without the chorus.

3) Said It All
Someone has forgotten to change the settings on Gary Barlow's song-o-matic compositional machine, as this is yet another piano ballad with a soaring chorus and "meaningful" lyrics about the end of a relationship. The middle section steals the guitar riff from Coldplay's Yellow. Next!

4) Up All Night
This has an oompah brass band in it. Once you've got over the shock, it's quite a catchy little number in the vein of Shine - with a double-tracked Mark Owen singing about sexual frustration (?) while the rest of the band do their very best ELO harmonies.

The middle eight is brilliant: "I met this girl last night and she said 'why won't you marry me'? Well I'm too young for that, too dumb for that, too broke for that, too tired for that, too proud for that and I'm too gone for that.

"But would you like to come back to my flat?" Amazing.

Conclusion: Bring back Lulu!