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Lacking any dramatic innovations or departures from last year's The Man Who, The Invisible Band succeeds by approximating - via warm melodies, textures and sincerity - Simon and Garfunkel fronting U2. No longer as concerned with where the rain falls, frontman Fran Healy submits the rousing "Sing" and sunny "Flowers in the Window" for proof he's grown up and fallen in love; both songs, unlike most of the other tracks on Invisible Band, are as catchy as anything on The Man Who. Elsewhere, Healy's unrelenting earnestness gets raised to new heights by his newfound confidence. His lesson-songs - including "Side" (we're all on the same team) and "The Cage" (if you love someone, set them free) - revive a near-dead tradition: the songwriter who thinks he's got something to teach us. The effort, if not entirely successful, is sympathetically disarming.
RONI SARIG
(RS 871 - June 21, 2001)
(Posted: May 29, 2001)
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- Sing
- Dear Diary
- Side
- Pipe Dreams
- Flowers In The Window
- The Cage
- Safe
- Follow The Light
- Last Train
- Afterglow
- Indefinitely
- The Humpty Dumpty Love Song
- Ring Out The Bell
- You Don't Know What I'm Like
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Bluemask writes:
More catchy emotive pop from these Britpopers. Though there is the twang of the banjo on the appropiatly titled "Sing", there is little in the way of growth from the band's previous efforts. Still great Sunday afternoon music though.
Dec 7, 2005 12:05:08
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