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Photo by Steve Iggulden \u00a9 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

Riccardo Cavrioli reflects on Tim Arnold’s new album ‘You Are For Me’.<\/h2>\n

Tim Arnold perfectly describes his new album himself, when, in the album\u2019s liner notes, he signs off at the end of a list of acknowledgements and thanks with the words:\u00a0“I needed to make this album<\/em>“.<\/h3>\n

Arnold has never written to please potential clients, he has always written for himself, to overcome traumas, to exorcise his demons or to give strength to his ideas and needs. In this way,\u00a0You Are For Me<\/strong><\/em> is no different. \u00a0It is the eighteenth album in a career that never seems to settle or conclude. \u00a0Whats more, the sensitivity of his melodic pop shows no signs of diminishing, but rather, becomes stronger with each new album.<\/h3>\n

You Are For Me<\/em> arrives just one year after I Am for You<\/a>,<\/em> and from the title, one perceives a sort of continuity, as if the personal search for himself on the previous album has now been refocused to the person he is singing about. \u00a0This album is suspended between doubts, romance, disappointments, hopes, moments of pride, sincerity, repugnance and the innate desire to believe everything can improve in difficult times.<\/h3>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tim Arnold – ‘You Are For Me’ (2018)<\/p><\/div>\n

The record was written and recorded in 4 locations over a period of five months: from London to Los Angeles, passing through Malaga and being completed in Toronto with Canadian producer and fellow singer songwriter Ben Pelchat. \u00a0This geographical pilgrimage of Arnold\u2019s has also become a pilgrimage to music itself, with a variety of sonic explorations that dazzles and holds our attention on all ten tracks. \u00a0Arnold pours all his musical culture into the field, proving to be a human sponge that absorbs every<\/i> reality surrounding him (there are even references to Italy, thanks to his short stay made in our country last summer)<\/i> and this shows his genuine credibility, both in the moving piano ballad “A Page In Your Parade”<\/em> that closes the album, and the upbeat pop Vivaldi sampling<\/i> opener\u00a0“About You”<\/em>. \u00a0In between these two extremes, there are some passages in which those who know Arnold’s discography will be at ease, such as the cabaret confessional of “Two of Her Favourite Things”<\/em> or the classic singer songwriter\u2019s touch of “Happy Thought”<\/em>. \u00a0But the real surprise for returning fans is the perfectly packaged synthetic blues of \u00a0“I’m An Open Book”<\/i>, (one of the most compelling and tantalizing pieces of the entire work), along with the gospel, RnB perfume of “Hope Is Like The Sun”<\/i> and the perky American flavour of “Sunshine Through The Rain”. \u00a0<\/i>This is all new territory, however second nature it may sound.<\/h3>\n

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