Album Review : Yoni - Ginger**** First off, what's a Yoni then ? Wiki entry here. Right, well that's rock stars for you, I suppose calling it fanny would only have confused the Americans. Ginger, when on form, is one of the greatest rock song writers we Brits have been blessed with, he seems to effortlessly create catchy rhythms and riffs, sing-a-long melodies, anthems and choruses, he's really good. You know there's a but coming, but, I think he writes better music when he has someone else to write with, and let's be frank, the someone else's have to be The Wildhearts. That's not to say that Ginger can't write decent solo material, and I like almost of all his solo output, but on the numerous albums put out by various Ginger side projects (Silver Ginger 5, Clam Abuse, Supershit666 etc) there are hardly any songs that really compare with the best material he has created for The Wildhearts. Ginger also seems to suffer a bit from lengthy writing, it's as if he doesn't quite know when to stop, there are a couple of tracks on this 12 track album that would be better with a bit of editing, Smile In Denial and the overly long Jake spring to mind. A few of the other 5 minute plus songs would have been punchier with a little trimmed off. That said, and as I said earlier, Ginger writes a good song. Yoni is a more mature album in the most part than Valor Del Corazon was, it fairly drips with well constructed melodies and smooth, AOR tunes. Highlights for me would be When She Comes, Wendy You're Killing Me, Why Can't You Just Be Normal All The Time and the spot the tune happy time mix up of Can't Drink You Pretty. It is a good album, lacking the thrust of The Wildhearts, but still good music. It's probably too far along in Ginger's career for this to have any large scale impact, but there are some tunes on here that deserve to reach a wider audience.