Paul Coleman – The Weatherman

Gawd. I’m doing a terrible job at real time posting.

I try and steer away from a novelty buy. But this one went from initial novelty curiosity to a regular listen and I had to click order.

This initially peaked my interest by the cover – Paul sitting at the dining table with his bottle of Pepsi for family dinner perhaps looking chuffed after pumping out his Weather Channel tracks – before realising he wasn’t going to get paid. Poor bugger. But the Weather Channel theme was what got me. My dad worked for the Bureau of Meteorology and many a night was spent watching the weather report at the end of the news with him muttering when they got it wrong.

Released by Athens of The North, in stunning packaging, this album features 90’s jazz / vapoware created for the Weather Chanel. One would think this would be two sides of Muzak and whilst there are a couple tracks that hit a little too smooth, overall it’s fun and upbeat. The mixes of weather reports in between tracks is a nice touch. The back cover looks like a tv screen with little weather emojis on the track listing numbers and pictures of him with the weather presenter. So cute!!

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