release date: Sep. 15, 1986
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,56]
producer: John A. Rivers, Love and Rockets
label: Beggars Banquet - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "It Could Be Sunshine" - 2. "Kundalini Express" - 3. "All in My Mind" (4 / 5) - 5. "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)" - 7. "All in My Mind (acoustic version)" - 9. "Ball of Confusion (USA Mix)" (Bonus track)
2nd studio album by Love and Rockets takes the band further into experimental and neo-psychedelic within the alt. rock frame. It's strange how it has been successfully mixed as both extremely complex and yet clear as the brightest light. There's the addition of a harder tone of distorted guitars throughout the album but other than that it's undoubtedly Love and Rockets. The album is generally better produced than the debut album, despite being produced by the same people only two years later, and it's a rather hard choice to have to choose between the band's two first albums. They are both very good and highly original. The album comes in various editions. The first UK issue consisted of 8 tracks, although, an American issue had 9 tracks, and a Canadian issue 11 tracks. In 2000 Beggars Banquet reissued the album in a remastered version with 8 bonus tracks.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Kerrang! 4 / 5 stars ]
