OBLIVION

This is pretty much an average Todd and Utopia release. A total of 10 Standard hard power pop songs with catchy choruses. There is no resemblence to what the original Utopia had to offer on their first couple of albums. These are certainly not bad songs, by any means, they have some of the catchiest choruses this side of an ELO album, but they are pretty simple in structure and are not progressive at all. My favorite tunes are the first two: "Itch in My Brain", and "I'm in Love with a Thinker". "Maybe I could Change" is also a good Todd ballad. Nothing groundbreaking on OBLIVION. This is 1983 after all. And an extremely ugly cover! 2 stars.