Always much more experimental than his reputation as the
Charlatans UK lead singer would suggest,
Tim Burgess happily teamed up with avant-garde composer
Peter Gordon in 2016 to record
Same Language, Different Worlds.
Gordon may have worked with
Arthur Russell, a connection that certainly intrigued
Burgess, but this album skews toward
the Charlatans, containing songs that pulse to a distinct melody and that can also be overwhelmed by aggressive electronics. The mellifluous vocals and washes of texture wind up balancing each other a little bit too well: it's an alluring sound that seems attractive in the moment by disappears in the slipstream.