Madness: The Liberty of Norton Folgate

[orac]

Couldn't find any other threads. Wonder what people think of the latest Madness album? apart from poss 2 fillers its superb... best album since the rise and fall IMO and one of the best they have done.

[DeadYankee]

8/10 on The Music Fix

http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content/review/5982/madness.html

I think it works really well as a loose concept album. Some of it is a bit hamfisted and there's no singles of the quality of their heyday but you can't have everything. Suggs recently explained that there's a difficult balancing act in keeping the band going as some want more success whilst others would rather just be down the pub.

[ceiberman]

I've been playing this quite a bit lately.

They were always a great singles band in the past - no real obvious standout singles this time but perhaps their most consistent album to date.

[Woz]

Got this for my birthday and I've got to say I love it.
The 10 minute closing track is particularly impressive. Would have liked them to have made a full album in the 'opera' style of this track.

[smartiepants]

I got the boxset (3 cd & good old vinyl) about a week ago & its great, I think there best work yet,stand out tracks for me are
NW5
Forever young
dust devil
we are London
Norton Folgate

in fact the whole blinking album is great

[gjkendall]

I have just bought the boxset...buying all the remasters had got me in a madness mood.