Where's The Craic
2001
After the first listen I sighed and though that the Frank and Walters were yet again another hapless victim of "Dance culture". Then I gave it another spin and the leg started twitching involuntarily. Before I knew it the head was going and people were beginning to become curious. That's how this album got me. This album in a welcome progression from their last album "Beauty becomes more than life". It answers a lot of the questions the last album left for me, such as what direction are the band taking? This album was helped along partly thanks to producer Rob Kirwin (U2, Depeche Mode, etc.), who seems to have created a working harmony with the band immediately.
Tracks like the very contagious 'Isn't it time' and the opening track 'Underground' continues the experimentation that they started in 1999 only taking it to a more accomplished level. Delicacy, harmony and subtlety can be found in songs like 'Talking about you' and 'Paradise'. All in all a well constructed, produced and balanced album that should clearly mark their future. What I'm looking forward to is the next evolutionary step, which will surely bridge all the missing links and get them the elusive world success they deserve.
-- James Malone
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[Thanks to Roger]