Reviewer: Neal Sky
“Escapology” is a much deeper album than Robbie Williams previous studio albums, picking up different styles of music – there’s britpop, rock, punkrock, soul, pop, eighty’s sound – and the lyrics are more interesting this time: not only lost-man-ballades & “hey lady, jump in my bed”-uptempo songs are on “Escapology”, but also selfcritical, ironic lyrics (“Handsome man”, “Me & my monkey”), autobiographic content (“Nan’s Song”, “Hot fudge”) and criticizing showbizz (“How Peculiar”, “Come undone”). In an interview Robbie Williams gave before the release of “Escapology” he said: “I’m happy. I recorded four songs in past two days & it’s four #1′s!” …and he is right: there’s an awfull lot of #1 material on “Escapology”: the acoustic ballade “Sexed up”, the britpop-song “Monsoon”, the soulful duet “Revolution” with Rose Stone & the Queen-ish, desperate love song “Love somebody” might do aswell on charts as the first single “Feel”. Although the album is great, it won’t be the what Robbie Williams wanted it to be: “a classic like ‘Nevermind’ by Nirvana”. Maybe Robbie Williams has to work on this another few years.