Boston: Corporate America : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Unlike the first two Boston albums, which were good, the group's last three discs have each needed eight years to make. So Corporate America offers a familiar pleasure: wondering which pristine bass lines and glossy harmony vocals required months of studio time to lay down. That's about it for pleasure, though: Most of this album wallows in overblown prog-rock pomp and hackneyed sentiments such as "You Gave Up on Love." The title track, which has the up-to-date mid-Eighties synth sound of Depeche Mode, offers incisive political commentary such as "Look at you, corporate America/You're in disgrace" and "Corporate America!/Look out! Look out!/Who's gonna save us?" Please, let our savior be anyone but Boston: This album is less than a feeling.

GAVIN EDWARDS
(RS 910 – November 28, 2002)