Everything new is actually well-forgotten old. Which makes finding the exact description of See My Friends a bit hard. On the one hand, the songs in it are old, but if Lola, You Really Got Me or All of the Day and All of the Night ever ever turn out to be well-forgotten, I will personally shoot myself with a knife. On the other hand, the songs are not just re-recorded with famous guest vocalists - they are renewed. Renewed arrangements, lyrics, and sometimes combined with other songs. They are 15 in total and each one fits the style of the guest singer(s) in it. The array of guests is as motley as a chameleon on drugs. Let us just mention Bruce Springsteen, Metallica and Billy Corgan just to tickle your appetite and let the others come as a surprise. As for styles, the album passes through nearly all - from blues, through melodic rock, towards metal all the way to country and a bit of electronic sound here and there. And yet it remains homogeneous - an album by Ray Davies of Kinks. I would've liked to direct you attentions to the flaws in See My Friends, but honestly, I don't see any. The only kind of sour feeling that you are left with after listening to the album is that through the modern arrangements and the modern guest vocalists it becomes even more obvious that songs like that are just not made anymore, or at least not that often. There is a lack of talented composers. Or I have gotten too old with the years. And if you like metaphors - See My Friends is like a retro car with all new parts under the hood. So, sink into the passenger seat and enjoy.