The Charlatans' Path encore...(14/6)

The recent influx of sound comes wholly from the Charlatans, the veteran teamed up with Tim Burgess etc. Frankly have I never expected any new sound from the Charlatans after listening to their last album Simpatico, and I was thinking of their continual tribute to the soulful shape of music in their following works, if still any...
A band with the age of the Charlatans may have been dissolved, dismissed, retired or drained out of passion and music creativity and capability. The Charlatans are not. From the baggy Madchester scene in the end 80's, the Charlatans manage to develop their shakkkky rhythm into a flowing fluid of rock'n'roll music notes. It's after a decade since the pass away of their talented keyboardist Rob Collins, and here again the new album of You Cross My Path showed the melodic poem of the band. Champed as the Charlatans' best album noted by The Independent, I was attached to their work and promised to offer my last chance if not a wasted trial to the works of the band, and surprisingly the lovely sound is totally out of my expectation. Out of the eight years in the 21st century, there is not any truly representing sound in the UK and the US scene apart from the continuous return of the veteran, and the annual hype and music-sound-fusioned-approach of the newcomers simply attempt in a less satisfactory way to fill up the gap of the columns of the music magazines. This decade appears to me still a blanking page of missing sound. This is a pity.