Q Review




October 2002 Issue

Full Review of 'Time Changes Everything'

FOLLY'S GOLD - It's not all bad...

North Country NCCD001 (47:33)

BY NOW EVEN the most rabid Stone Roses loyalist must be getting depressed. John Squire's belated solo debut comes a full five years after the single derisory album by The Seahorses. Recorded in his shed and released on his own label, it sees Squire follow Suede's Bernard Butler and The Smith's Johnny Marr in becoming a quality guitarist who has inexplicably taken up singing. The augurs are terrible.

But if you can get over the voice - and it is not a lovely thing - Time Changes Everything at least has curiosity value. Built to honest Dylan-like specifications, with frequent use of Hammond, it has the added balt of lyrics that groan with Stone Roses references. 15 days uses the same opening line as Fool's Gold, while I Miss You depicts young bucks "capable of anything" and declares to them "I miss you/And I know deep down you miss me too."

It's delivered in a sub-Peter-Perrett-impersonating-Bowie voice, but these reflections on lost youth, love and betrayal are highpoints here. Still, with guitars as waggling and tumescent as you'd expect, this is should please fat-necked Spike Island veterans.


2 (out of 5)

Ian Harrison








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