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Amazon.co.uk Review
Stoke's favourite son's sixth studio album marks a
new stage in the career of Mr Robert Peter Williams,
Britain's favourite popular entertainer. Severed from
his former right hand man, songwriter Guy Chambers,
Intensive Care sees him forging a new partnership with
former Lilac Time stalwart Stephen Duffy. The result is
his most complete album to date, free from the gimmicky
fillers--like "Me and My Monkey" and
"Jesus In A Camper Van"--that tended to drag
previous efforts down.Never short of cocksure bravado,
Robbie starts proceedings off with a modest
declaration—"Here I stand victorious, the only
man who made you come", but for once he's got the
tunes to back up the posturing. There're plenty of
classic Robbie tracks, from the ballad-tastic
"Advertising Space"--which should see
"Angels" relegated to the backbenches--to the
public confessional of "The Trouble With Me";
plus some daring departures in between, from the '80s
pop fun of "Sin Sin Sin" to the Rolling
Stones-a-like "A Place To Crash", via the
Oasis-lite of "Make Me Pure" and the Smiths-esque
guitars on "Your Gay Friend". You can't help
but feel that Mr Williams has a point to make with this
album, to all the people who said he'd be nothing
without Guy Chambers; if that is the case, he couldn't
have gone about it a better way than by serving up the
best album of his career to date. --Melanie Wilkin
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