Kelly Jones has demonstrated, with some frequency, to be a solvent composer suitable to realize most of the classical times. A skill that, combined with its beautiful and characteristic broken voice, has been giving packaging to the career of Stereophonics Since the band appeared on the scene in the nineties, opting, with the change of the century and records such as “Just Enough Education To Perform” (Universal, 01), to a general success capable of overflowing the (theoretical) indie scene. Almost three decades after group formation, Jones continues to lead Stereophonics In a commitment that, along the way, has lost any hint of surprise, while leaving expendable works of the type of “Keep Calm And Carry On” (Universal, 09) The “Kind” (MPOophone, 19).
A somewhat inert trend that, in general terms, does not seem to improve in the face of “Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait” –Heading album already in the Welsh Combo -, but at least (and no doubt) a step is located above the one marked by the titles indicated. Not surprisingly, this reference includes a small handful of songs capable of recalling that, in effect, Kelly Jones can be an interesting creator who still has in Faces and Rod Stewart its main touchstone. They are cuts like that “Make It On Your Own” that opens the fire, “Seems Like You Don’t Know Me”, “Eyes Too Big For My Belly” o “Colours Of October” (The best of the lot) that, at least in periods of four minutes, return faith in the combo originating in Cwmaman.
In any case, “Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait” It has been affecting a recurring error for a long time in the quartet, which ends the matter with excessive production capable of filing edges to presenting a domesticated and suitable product for the general public. This is how the aforementioned songs acquire an excess of sugar that remains credibility to that compositional essence that, in full contrast and at the same time, implies the main asset of the reference. It is possible, therefore, that the models of “Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait” “It was still without the envelope of that paraphernalia that lasts to this salvable set of songs,” they would win in credibility and stuck. Precisely, the endemic evils that usually indicate (by their absence) the detractors of Stereophonics.
