CALLING ALL STATIONS

Upon its release, I genuinely hoped that this would be a brave stab at the slightly darker, edgier sound and themes of the Peter Gabriel era- all foxes in dresses and games of croquet with human heads! The new singer Ray Wilson certainly has Gabriel's croaky warmth but aside from a cracking burst of guitar riffery on the title track, musically this is a very static album. Weirder still, it is an album distinctly lacking in direction. Not quite a pop album because the hyper-famous Phil Collins has left the band and taken all the catchy hooks with him (Perhaps only 'Congo' but little else) and it's not quite Prog either. The song 'The Dividing Line' feels like a call to arms for the old fans but it arrives out of a fog of string pads and nondescript melodies a bit too late in the album to provide hope. The drummers sound like Phil Collins, the vocals sound like Peter Gabriel but the music is a pea-souper of vagueness and if you manage to get through its interminable running time, you kind of wish you'd just listened to Foxtrot or Duke.

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