All You Need Is Now
Album | Duran Duran
The follow-up to Rio, 28 years later.
Historically, the words “unenviable position” and Duran Duran have not frequently found within the same sentence, but that changed in the late 2000s. Following the underperforming 2007 album Red Carpet Massacre, the ‘80s pop icons parted ways with Epic Records only halfway through their four-album deal, and were preparing to release the follow-up on their own, at a time when their career needed a boost the most. In this trying time, the band couldn’t have asked for a better deus ex machina than whiz-kid producer Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, et al), probably the first person Duran Duran ever encountered who had the stones to tell them that they peaked in 1982 with Rio and needed to get back to their roots instead of updating their classic sound. Fortunately, old-school-Duran fan Ronson also had the knowhow to bring the band back to Rio-era mode without sounding desperately retro. Sure enough, the thumb-slapping bass lines, percolating, post-Moroder sequencers, sharp-edged guitar slashes, and mile-high pop hooks of the band’s heyday are all present and accounted for on All You Need Is Now, but Ronson and Duran Duran have carefully ensured that the net effect is one of freshness and frisson, rather than crusty coffin-dodging.
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