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TRACKLISTING 1. Love Can Hurt |
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ROBIN SARSTEDT achieved success in 1976 when he reached number 3 in UK charts with his single “My Resistance is Low”. Until then he was best known as the younger brother of EDEN KANE and PETER SARSTEDT. Robin then forged a worldwide career with further hits in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
“TU” was recorded in London and as you would expect from the album, the Sarstedt signature delivery is melodic, crisp, clean and tangible. Play “Love Can Hurt” and see what we mean.
Reviews
Away from music for a long time, as there was only a collaboration with Peter on 1986's "Asia Minor" after "You Must Remember This" that had been out six years earlier, Robin's comeback wasn't overdue, to say the least - nobody could hope for a new album - but he's on a roll again, and is good at it. Mostly acoustic, with keyboard providing a delicate backdrop to an exquisite guitar strum, the pieces on "TU" are brimful with gratitude to life that's never taken for granted, and not for nothing, opening with the artist's own "Love Can Hurt" whose bittersweet optimism is a light at the end of memory lane, the record is resolved with Dylan's "Forever Young" because there's a blessing in every experience Sarstedt has gone through to tell about now.
He's no stranger to a singer-songwriter stance, but the concise autobiography "I Just Want To Rock 'n' Roll" betrays a rebel under a bard's skin, and the jagged riff of "Back Again" scratches against its tanned complacence - a deceptive kind of veneer which can be easily broken when sociopolitical affairs come into romantic play on this track or a cover of brother Peter's "Beirut" - while Robin's take on Ric Grech's "Kiss The Children" adds baroque air, that Gram Parsons' version didn't have, to the proceedings. And if "Song For Tessa," a ballad dedicated to Sarstedt's late wife, is straightforwardly lyrical, "Losin' End" cuts the deepest, whereas the determination of "Doggone" has its harmonica-oiled bluesy twang shaping a bright tomorrow - or TU-morrow - for Robin. He persevered with this music, and it's time for him to carry on. ****
DMME.net (February 2017)
His latest album 'TU' is a melodic one, featuring several self-penned compositions plus versions of two Peter Sarstedt songs - 'Beirut' and 'Mellowed Out' - two Bob Dylan - 'Thunder On The Mountain' and 'Forever Young' - and Michael McDonald's 'Losing End'.
Bev Bevan, Sunday Mercury (December 2016)
...There's some lovely guitar playing, too; smooth and vaguely bluesy riffs on the electric guitar and some nice picking on the acoustic guitar. He opens with a selection of his own songs, all of which are strong compositions, before some covers, including 'Beirut' by brother Peter and Nobel Laureate Bob's 'Thunder On The Mountain'.
The Chronicle (October 2016)
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