THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

My least favorite Spock's Beard album. I realize I'm somewhat in a minority here (except of the innimitable Hugues Chantraine, who I agree with on nearly everything it seems), as well as amoung SB fans in general. Admittedly, I'm not a huge SB fan, but I do find at least two of their albums to be excellent. But in this case, I just find everything a bit weak and uninspired. The first and last tracks are quite good though, so I can't call this a time waster. The middle tracks however, are uniformly a bit to mainstream and simplistic for me, and June is one of the lamest songs I've ever heard from any band, let alone SB (the only thing worse I think is the song Skin from the next SB album). Anyway, if you are a fan you have it, if you don't you should get it in spite of my view because you may well enjoy it. If you are not a fan, start with the first album or Beware Of Darkness.