Imperial Way is the latest album from reformed 80's Glam Folk rockers One The Juggler whose original core of Sham Morris, Jerry T Jones and Colin Minchin have been joined by Dave Lowe and special guests Al Costin, Tim Matthewman and Ronnie Paris. Imperial Way was recorded and mastered at Ranscome Studios in Rochester by Jim Riley and mixed and engineered by Colin Minchin and Produced by one the Juggler. Imperial way was the estate they grew up in in Chislehurst in Kent.
The album opens with Imperial Way Intro a rather lush evocative piece of upbeat cinematic rock leading to Fantastic Fun painting a picture for us of what One The Juggler consider Fantastic Fun to be, great squirrelly guitar runs, glam rock drums, stomping bass to get everyone up ready for loads more fantastic glamtastic fun and games.
Jennifer Glows with Psychedelic wonderment at that Glow he sees in her eyes, sweet harmonies calling for love and affections, this is sweet power pop with an ever so slight wistful feeling, that possibly Jennifer will never be his.
I'm Only A Man who is still begging for your love each and every day, stomp along to the beat and Hoople riffs and swirls, pushing him down the drain, proving of course that he is still the one for you. Wait For You To Come is pleading for you to have fun with him again, enchanted by the spangly stars on his cheeks and his obsession with Bolan's guitar sound.
I Will Wait For You is almost Bacharach & David style Glam chamber pop with a Scott Walker edge, all the yearning, begging and pleading for you to return to him once more, asking should he take her in. While Calico reworks some Ronson guitar lines to great effect.
Twist City has Lodger style vocal harmonies and twisted guitars celebrating just why Twist City is the place for you, with an infectious groove, this has a glam hit feel. Libertine slows things down to suitably louche and amoral life you lead's beat, full of deviance and adventure, so you can be as free like you are back living the 1970's lifestyle to the full, are those car keys being thrown into the middle again, all those fantasies becoming reality.
Hypnotised (Again) is slow twisted glam blues for the awful realisation that everything stays the same, we always buy the establishments lies, so we may need to listen to high-quality glam anthems trying to wake us all up the madness that needs changing.
Madam Callenza is suffering in ways that make it hard for her to go out in the daylight, this is a sad torrid tale of the toll of a life led adventuring, indulging in all the proclivities suggested by the Rolling Stones in her youth, a real heartbreaker, only now she has made Iggy’s prediction come true, her pretty face has gone to hell.
Stoned On Love is an upbeat promise, that if she goes with him he won't hurt her like every previous man has, how will he manage this impossible feat, well by getting Stoned On Love and just wallowing in those glam rock harmonics letting you have all the fun possible together.
The album closes by taking them back to Imperial Way in Chislehurst a place that will always be home to them, they dream of it all the time, with spectral guitars accompanying them every step of the way to imperial Way.
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