Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible

  by Zena Grieg

published: 29 / 10 / 2024

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Review

Founding member, lead singer and guitarist of Welsh rock band Stereophonics, Kelly Jones has brought out a new album, “Inevitable Incredible”, a second solo album, this one predominantly piano-based. Recorded over six days at Ocean Sound studio on a remote island in Norway, ‘Inevitable Incredible’ is a melodic mix of introspective, melancholy ballads with evocative lyrics informed by personal experience, set against cinematic arrangements. On the record’s inception Jones said: “New music sometimes needs a concentrated space to be appreciated fully in its correct surroundings and context. Many great songs I presented under Stereophonics got overlooked by the anthems and radio favourites….I don’t know fully what this record is or what it means, but if you’re in a place you’re looking or searching for something within you, you may find something within these songs that can connect to you”. Songs to listen out for in this eight-track collection include: the opener and title track with its dramatic keyboards and crashing waves; the minor chord ‘Time’s Running Away’, with its minimal accompaniment, featuring guest musician Jason Mowery on pedal steel; the uplifting ‘Echowrecked’ with its driving beat; and the world-weary closer ‘The Beast Will Be What The Beast Will Be’. Emotive, visceral and self-reflective, ‘Inevitable Incredible’ stands in striking contrast to Jones’s previous work

Track Listing:-

1 Inevitable Incredible
2 Turn Bad Into Good
3 Time's Running Away
4 Echowrecked
5 Sometimes You Fly Like The Wind
6 Monsters In The House
7 May I Come Home From My War
8 The Beast Will Be What The Beast Will Be

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