Out of All This Blue
Album • Sep 06 / 2019 • 4 songs, 14m 25s
Pop Rock
Heartland Rock
6.3
/ 10
Mike Scott takes his long-running Irish/Scottish folk rock band the Waterboys into new terrain on his latest LP—incorporating four-four disco stomp, a heavy dose of hip-hop, and romantic love.
Stylistic shape-shifting has long been part of Scott's modus operandi, but with the Waterboys' ambitious 2017's double set Out of All This Blue, Scott and his collaborators have jumped headfirst into R&B and funk rhythms, with drum loops and hip-hop-influenced production dominating many of the tracks.