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Rating: I had lost track of them, either because of the thousand listens available every day, or because their latest albums, including compilations and re-coverings of covers, hadn't impressed me much. I thought they were in artistic decline or that the genre had become too heavy, having reached the end for the masses, without a real reason to exist anymore.
Instead, I was really surprised by this "Nightbird" a nice piece of work with 11 songs all analog-sound and beginner-style melodies, refined with a pure techno-pop rhythm, which, with the unmistakable and unique voice of the great Andy Bell, weave this alchemy of mid-range sounds that enter straight into your soul and body without control, inevitably making you bounce and dream.
I hadn't felt this much compositional enthusiasm since the days of "Chorus", and the great Vince (Clarke), who has long since forgotten being an ex in the history of this genre, managed in a couple of years, with the assistance of fans via the internet, to put together a wonderful electropop piece of work, without being banal in the melodies.
The entire album sounds wonderful, the tracks are almost all on the same level of quality and aesthetics, yet songs like "Sweet Surrender", with its very Kraut-harmonium European anthem sounds, "Breathe", simple but pleasant, "Don't Say You Love Me" and "Because Our Love Is Real", beautiful pieces reminiscent of the splendid "Chorus", "All This Time Still Falling Out Of Love", almost campy, but with a very gay-club vibe, "Here I Go Impossible Again", intense and romantic, "No doubt" and "Let's Take One More Rocket To The Moon", splendid masterpieces of harmony, finishing with the sweet "I Bet You're Mad At Me" and all the others that flow more or less on the same frequency.
Surely the success of the late eighties, this time they will have to forget about, but nevertheless, they gave it their all and it is right that they be rewarded for the effort. An album that lovers of the genre absolutely must have, perhaps a little less so for others! To the masses the difficult verdict.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 No Doubt (03:58)
Where it is you wont say, but it hurts
Put your lips next to mine and apart
Why wont you open your heart?
I feel it coming it grows up my spine
I'm dying to show you what love is about
The tears that are falling
There's no room for doubt
For all the changes we've been through
It's an art just to give, will I learn?
To visualize what you want from my life
It's more than enough just to gaze in your eyes
I'm dying to show you what love is about
To tease you and please you
We must work it out
I know all your secrets so sad
For all the changes we've been through
02 Here I Go Impossible Again (03:41)
How many dreams am I looking for in your eyes, in your eyes
Ooh baby bet it seems that you're reaching down, all alone, on your own
Dreams are emotion baby, you know you gotta try
How am I supposed to know what's in your head, what's on your mind
I'm searching for your love that's in your heart I need it
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
I know I put you on a pedestal in my eyes, in my eyes
I don't like it when you put me down 'cause it hurts, yeah it hurts
Win some and lose some baby, you know you gotta try
I feel it my heart and in my soul and through my veins
Falling from my lips three little words 'I love you'
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
Dive into the ocean baby you know you gotta try
How am I supposed to know what's in your head, what's on your mind
I'm searching for your love that's in your heart I need it
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending
04 Breathe (03:49)
Twenty-seven times I paint the city in lights
Now I changed my mind
I was living fast now I'm running on empty
And I feel yeah I feel
You're gonna go, let me go
Breathe, and I breathe
It's bitter without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Stood the test of time
Though I treated you rough you were always kind
I let my head rule my heart now I'm feeling so lonely
And I feel it's the deal
You're letting me go gonna go
Breathe and I breathe
Hollow without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe I believe
Empty without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe, and I breathe
It's bitter without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe I believe
Empty without you I can't live without you
And I'm in love with you
Breathe I believe
I can't live without you I can't live with you
And I'm in love with you
10 Sweet Surrender (03:59)
All the miles of glory really mean nothing to me
It's our love here, we are invisible again
Imagine how it goes, I believe in sweet surrender
And searching for so long, it will stay with me forever
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
No religion and choruses again
But it won't leave me desolate and angry
Are there no poets in politics again
See the window upon the free world closing slowly
And poor men crawl upon your boney knees again
Imagine how it goes, I believe in sweet surrender
And searching for so long, it will stay with me forever
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
Holy roller and passion play again
On this day that I don't care to remember
No religion and choruses again
Imagine how it goes, I believe in sweet surrender
I feel lost as a dying rose in embers
No religion and choruses again
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
Are there no poets in politics again
No, I won't ever ask for your surrender
Holy roller and passion play again
On this day that I don't care to remember
No religion and choruses again
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