Defying Gravity Is Urban's 5th Studio Album

I think that’s the cryptic lettering on Keith Urban’s knuckles in the liner notes in Defying Gravity his new CD just released this week. Let us know if you know what that means…

Easier to decipher is his liner note love letter to his bride:

“NICOLE MARY, YOU ARE TRULY A GIFT FOM THE HEAVENS… YOU GIVE ME A LOVE I’VE NEVER KNOWN BUT ALWAYS DREAMED OF… YOU GAVE ME A LIFE AND THEN MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO THEN GIVE LIFE TO OUR BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY ROSE ND I LOVE YOU DEEPER AND MORE PROFUNDLY EVERY DAY.”

There is in fact a lot of ooeey gooeeey love on Defying Gravity but it just the thing to make his female fans swoon just a bit more.   Missing is a bit of guitar masculinity and almost any resemblance to  country style music.

Urban has never been the traditional type but -in the past- always seemed to make an effort to add in some plucky guitar and banjo fun to get us not to think twice about it. It’s always been quality over trying to sound country.    On the latest effort there’s barely a hint of banjo on a few tracks and there is an overall pop/ac feel.  Has he abandoned trying to stay in the “country music  club?” Time will tell…  Either way he’s alway’s quick to praise the genre.

Urban still has a stronghold on country radio and it’s fans as he proved with the initial chart topping single Sweet Thing.  Plus kudos for writing eight of the eleven tunes here. No doubt there is lots of quality on “Gravity” including happy tunes like “Why It Feels So Long” and “Kiss a Girl.” We love the idea of a Radney Foster remake (I’m In) but please lose the cheese drum track next time around.

Now can you tell us what “NSIUCNODLAEY LLIOFVEE” means…