I listened to this album five times, and it still isn’t doing a lot for me. Johnny Foreigner does a great job on “Lea Room,” but other tracks on “Waited Up Til It Was Light” leave me a bit empty. Maybe 13 tracks was a little ambitious. Perhaps a solid 10 would have been better.
“Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes” is a fun title, but the song itself is way too fast for its own good and leaves me dizzy. The chorus is slower, and it lets you catch up, and then it takes off again. A good song for pop fans, I guess, but I keep falling behind.
The talent is all in the song titles, really. “Our Bipolar Friends,” “Salt, Pepa and Spinderella” and “Yes! You Talk Too Fast” are real men of genius titles, but there is nothing underneath. The equally clever “DJ’s Get Doubts” is an exception, however. It has strings, but they don’t sound ostentatious.
“Sometimes in the Bullring” is like driving on a bumpy freeway. It’s fun, but you wonder about the harm you’re doing to your car. I don’t know how much more of this I can take. At least I tried. C-
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