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Yahoo!Rhino; October 2007
Overstated arrangements bristling with piano and bursting with brass, featuring a who’s who of contemporary vocalists – this could only be Julian Miles Holland, the former member of Squeeze, renowned pianist, and conductor. With the release of his autobiography comes Best of Friends, a double CD which finds Holland soliciting a little help from, well, his friends. The musicians turn their attention to a selection of Holland’s own material – from the sublime to the meticulous – along with some curious covers. Among them is arguably the album’s most pristine moment, where Holland and the Stereophonics present an inspiring rendition of Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” And considering these recordings were drawn from across the decade and never originally destined to be collated as such, they make for a surprisingly cohesive collective – and a lavish one at that. But one suspects that Holland wouldn’t have it any other way.
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