I really miss the close harmonising of pieces like 'Echoes' and 'Time'. It was actually a bit of an unpleasant surprise hearing Dave's voice on WDYWFM? for the first time. Not having heard MLoR or DSoT at that point, I really was expecting the lovelyness to ring true, instead, it was more the Laramie Camel (or whatever it is) off of The Simpsons. I kept on expecting it to get better all the way through, but astoundingly, the only respite on the entire album comes from (deep breath) Rick on... um, whatever song he small mouth croons on. I like the fact that Dave comes in on backing vox in a sort of whispery way that vaguely harks back to The Golden Period. But only slightly.

Then they go back to sounding like Simple Minds.

Mr Slater's parrot etc,

Mark

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