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release date: Mar. 1994
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,12]
producer: Jon Kelly, The Beautiful South
label: Go! Discs - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Hold on to What?" - 2. "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)" - 4. "Everybody's Talkin' " - 6. "Worthless Lie" - 7. "Hooligans Don't Fall in Love"
4th studio album by The Beautiful South and the first to feature new vocalist Jacqui [Jacqueline] Abbott who replaced Briana Corrigan. Jacqui would stay in the band for four studio albums before leaving in 2000 to concentrate on her family. The style hasn't changed much, although, it has become even less jangle pop influenced, but social and moral issues remain central themes to the song writing. It's an album without the stronger tracks one will find on the band's first two albums, and it leaves me with a sensation without immediate appeal, and as such: very much like its predecessor 0898, a fine release without much greatness. Norman Cook (former member of The Housemartins) is credited for programming on "Hooligans Don't Fall in Love". Best faring single from the album is strangely the 1960s Fred Neil classic "Everybody's Talkin' ", which seems a bit off, style-wise, I think.
The initial prints of the album was marked with a front cover by German artist Michael Sowa (google search), which was seen as an insult by the giant HMV, who argued that the cover art was mocking its trademark, and a new front cover was made (also by Sowa).
[ another wonderful Sowa art: "Autobahnsau" => 'Highway pig' ].
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]
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