Music Review: George Michael @ Patience

30 November -0001

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A icon of British pop has resurfaced with his new long-awaited album, and says it will be his last high-profile commercial release. "Patience" is indeed a requirement for fans of the former Wham! member, as this is just his fourth solo album of original material and first in eight years. Flitting between fraught ballads and up-tempo adult pop, George here returns to the structure and mood of 1990s Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1. Patience is at its most delicate and moving with its title track, the intense, tabloid-attacking "Through" and the painful family memories of "My Mother Had a Brother". To balance this, hearts will be raised by "Amazing", with its echoes of the Bee Gees, "Round Here", in which George remembers his early days scampering around Bushey with Andrew Ridgley, and "Cars and Trains", which celebrates the kind of lifestyle that so riled the LAPD back in 1998. That's the thing about George Michael these days. Love him or loathe him, he is unapologetically himself. And fans should be very grateful for that

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