Album artwork for Wake Up The Nation (10th Anniversary Remix Edition) by Paul Weller

Nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize. Reflecting the urgency and claustrophobia of city life, the record dispensed with the acoustic, folky and pastoral influences of Weller’s recent work and introduced more jagged rock styles with angry, urban and metallic influences – Diamond Dogs, Low-period Bowie riffs. Very experimental, mostly short songs but with a sense of adventure – often packing a suite’s worth of twists into one song – the updated New Orleans shuffle meets bonkers music hall of Many of the left turns arrive via the arrangements – witness the careening chaos after the chorus of Grasp and Still Connect, or the mutating psychedelia of Andromeda Amongst the experimentation though, Jam fans will love the tightly wound collaboration with Bruce Foxton on Fast Car / Slow Traffic, the dense dangerous heartbeat and militaristic sound collage of 7&3 Is the Strikers Name (featuring My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields).

Paul Weller

Wake Up The Nation (10th Anniversary Remix Edition)

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Album artwork for Wake Up The Nation (10th Anniversary Remix Edition) by Paul Weller
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Sleeve Design in Black with Silver Embossed Letters (Paul Weller) and Two Silver-Plated Turn Switches.Plus Folded Insert

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Released 07/01/2022Catalogue Number

862465

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Album artwork for Wake Up The Nation (10th Anniversary Remix Edition) by Paul Weller
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Released 27/11/2020Catalogue Number

862466

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Paul Weller

Wake Up The Nation (10th Anniversary Remix Edition)

Island
Album artwork for Wake Up The Nation (10th Anniversary Remix Edition) by Paul Weller
LP

£42.99£34.99

sale

Sleeve Design in Black with Silver Embossed Letters (Paul Weller) and Two Silver-Plated Turn Switches.Plus Folded Insert

Black
Released 07/01/2022Catalogue Number

862465

Learn more
Album artwork for Wake Up The Nation (10th Anniversary Remix Edition) by Paul Weller
CD

£14.99

Released 27/11/2020Catalogue Number

862466

Learn more

Nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize. Reflecting the urgency and claustrophobia of city life, the record dispensed with the acoustic, folky and pastoral influences of Weller’s recent work and introduced more jagged rock styles with angry, urban and metallic influences – Diamond Dogs, Low-period Bowie riffs. Very experimental, mostly short songs but with a sense of adventure – often packing a suite’s worth of twists into one song – the updated New Orleans shuffle meets bonkers music hall of Many of the left turns arrive via the arrangements – witness the careening chaos after the chorus of Grasp and Still Connect, or the mutating psychedelia of Andromeda Amongst the experimentation though, Jam fans will love the tightly wound collaboration with Bruce Foxton on Fast Car / Slow Traffic, the dense dangerous heartbeat and militaristic sound collage of 7&3 Is the Strikers Name (featuring My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields).