FREEZE FRAME

After the amazing L album, I was expecting another great release from Godley & Creme. I was somewhat disappointed by this album. It starts out pretty on the right track. An Englishman In New York has a similar feel to the previous album. It is a quirky, extremely well produced track, with the weirdness I have come to expect from this duo. Random Brainwaves is another nice track. Eerie and dark, with again, beautiful production. Then there's I Pity Inanimate Objects, where Godley & Creme use a pitch shifter to create a totally bizarre vocal sound, long before that god-awful Cher song and just about every pop tart in the business made the sound trite.

The rest of the album goes downhill. While the production is still nice, the songwriting starts to lose the innovation that was a trademark for these 10cc refugees. At least there is a lot of innovation in the arrangements & mix.

Still, it's not a bad album to own.