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Rating: Probably almost no one has ever heard of this group. In fact, it is a satellite project of two members of the New Order, specifically Gillian Gilbert and Steve Morris, the two musicians of the English group most tied to electronic experimentation. It is therefore logical to expect an album with typical "Newordian" sounds.
The album was released in 1993, right after the "NO" released "Republic", and from this Morris and Gilbert drew inspiration for the production of this album, which sounds very pop, and the experimentation to which New Order had dedicated their lives throughout the 80s is strangely set aside in favor of a "flat" and lackluster sound, which in the long run risks becoming tiresome. Perhaps the project of Morris and Gilbert is somehow less interesting compared to that of Peter Hook (Monaco) and Bernard Sumner (Electronic), but it deserves to be considered, particularly by New Order fans, who here will find an old friend, Stephen Hague, who produced the celebrated piece "True Faith" in 1987. Specifically, Hague's work on this album was to produce some tracks, such as: "Tasty Fish", "Selfish", "The Greatest Thing" (which opens very similarly to "World" by NO), "Feel This Love", and "Ninth Configuration" (probably one of the most successful songs).
Almost all the other tracks pass by anonymously with Gilbert's voice accompanying the songs without much conviction. In the end, the album is not bad, but I would recommend the purchase (assuming you manage to find it) only to NO fans who would like to expand their knowledge of the satellite projects of the English group members. For everyone else, I would recommend steering towards the "official" New Order albums.
Almost forgot! The artistic part of the album (cover and booklet) is entrusted to Peter Saville, the same who curated (and still curates) the presentation of the Joy Division and New Order albums.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Tasty Fish (03:46)
One day I’ll go out walking
I don’t know where (could be anywhere)
Send a letter ‘cos I’m sick of talking
(Send my love you know I won’t be there)
It’s gonna last for ever and there’s nothing I can do
(Nothing I can do)
Get yourself together that’s what it comes back to
(Coming back to you)
No matter what you say
It doesn’t matter what you do
(It all comes back to)
No matter what you say, no matter what I do
It all comes back to you
One day you’ll see it my way
I don’t know when (could be anywhere)
Another wreck on life’s long highway
Another trip you know we’ll have to share
It’s gonna last forever and there’s nothing I can do
(Nothing I can do)
Get yourself together that’s what it comes back to
(Coming back to you)
Nothing I can do without it, your love must be true
(It all comes back to you)
Nothing I can say about it, keep coming back to you
(It all comes back to you)
Nothing I can do without it, your love must be true
(It all comes back to you)
Nothing I can say about it, keep coming back to you
(It all comes back to you)
No matter what you say, it doesn’t matter what you do
(It all comes back to you)
No matter what you say, no matter what I do
(It all comes back to you)
No matter what you say, it doesn’t matter what you do
(It all comes back to you)
No matter what you say, no matter what I do
(It all comes back to you)
09 Innocence (04:47)
Innocent I thought you’d been
Don’t come here to clean up your conscience
Closer now to me, but you’re the same boy now and that’s what I want
Innocent you’ll always be
Who will believe in a boy like you
You’re closer to my heart, but you’re the same boy now and that’s how I want you to be
Since the very start, you took control of my heart
And even at the end, you said we’d still be friends
And an innocent like me, is glad that it’s over (it’s over)
It’ s not the city or this town
I’m not the only girl that needs your affection
To satisfy this need that you’re the same boy now and that’s what I want
Take everything don’t just try to buy it
Did loneliness break your heart?
Life has no guarantees
It’s the same thing, listen now babe
You’re no good but you should be
It’s over
Since the very start you took control of my heart
And even at the end, you pretended to be my friend
And the innocence in me is glad that it’s over
(Na na na na naa na na na na na)(X9)
Since the very start you took control of my heart
And in the very end you pretended to be my friend
But you could never see the innocence in me
The innocence in me
(Na na na na na na na na na na na na na)
The innocence in me
(Na na na na na na na na na na na na na……)
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By Abraham
Carefree, yet with a high-level and quite radio-friendly melodic line are the three singles: "Tasty Fish," "Selfish," and "Innocence."
The overall judgment is positive for the above-mentioned episodes, so much so that the work will be reissued in a limited edition and remastered in 2010.
