Last Night in the Bittersweet is Nutini’s fourth offering since he broke through as a pin-up purveyor of contemporary blue-eyed soul with These Streets in 2006. Eight years in the making, its opening track, Afterneath, contains a sample of Quentin Tarantino dialogue from the director’s 1993 thriller True Romance, while the Scottish soul-man wails like a bereft creature in a primeval forest over some prog-rock jazz noodling, and recites a spoken-word lyric of beatnik poetry: “Carnage in good night despair / A deep dive into an open mind / On the lost highway of the caustic night…” After that, things only get stranger.
I would love to have seen the expressions on the faces of record-company executives when the Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini delivered his long-awaited new album. Paolo Nutini, Last Night in the Bittersweet ★★★★☆
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