NOUVEAU CALLS

This album sounds stuck in the late 1980s when there was a movement toward instrumental rock albums. It had a stronger curiosity factor and held more interest then. But it did succeed in getting the original lineup back together and the subsequent Hear to Hear which had vocals was more accessible and one of the band's more solid commercial-type songwriter ventures (even if not commercially noticed). Nonetheless I get a sense that Nouveau, being on Miles Copeland's new label venture, did make some publishing money. Tracks from it were regularly played between innings at Oakland A's games and I heard it once during an NBA game as it cut to a commercial.