release date: Apr. 18, 1994
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,33]
producer: Troels Bech
label: Cloudland - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Being With Someone" (live) - 2. "Introducing Love to a Cynic" (live) - 3. "Lovers' Lingo" - 7. "Venus in Furs" - 9. "Can't Find Myself"
2nd studio album by Greene and the follow-up to Teenage Museum (May 1992) is Greene in a slightly changed line-up making it a quintet with lead vocalist Peter H. Olesen, acoustic guitarist Henrik Olesen, lead guitarist Marco de Andreis, and with Flemming Borby on drums and organ. New member here is Henrik Duus on electric & acoustic guitar, who only features on this album. Aside from that also John Krog Hansen (from The Poets, here replacing Kim Borreby) is credited on bass - he would be official member after the release. All songs are credited Olesen / Olesen except track #1 with additional music by Jens Unmack and track #7, a cover of Lou Reed's "Venus in Furs".
Musically, the band has turned down on its post-punk roots and embraced more melodic and harmony-based indie pop with room for ballads, holding on to a more subdued jangle pop sound.
I recall being quite happy for this album when it was released but also found it with apparent inspiration from The Sound / Adrian Borland and not so much the Go-Betweens / Aztec Camera sound they demonstrated on the debut, but over the years, I don't see it as the strong follow-up, I initially embraced back then. It still has its moments - mostly in terms of reflecting better arrangements and for being better produced - but as original music it stands a bit with the one foot in following The Sound and the other wanting to follow Lou Reed and ends up being a bit indecisive. Also, when looking back at the band's discography - counting three full-length studio albums, Lovers' Lingo appears their weakest moment.
