Florence and additional TV appearances in the UK. Lead single "Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" was additionally seen as a weak single to launch the album with, a decision that producer Chris Kimsey in particular felt was poor. In a 2020 interview with Paul Sinclar, the editor of website Super Deluxe Edition, Kimsey noted that either the songs "Serious" or "Liberty" should have been lead singles and the whole album may have seen more commercial success. Critical reception to Liberty was mainly negative with a number of music journalists slating the album; Trouser Press magazine described it as "a senseless collision of tuneless guitar raunch, Motown-inflected soul-pop and numbing dance grooves" whilst Q Magazines reviewer Andrew Martin suggested that only three tracks – "Liberty", "Serious" and "My Antarctica" – were worthy of inclusion, a view echoed in 2020 by producer Chris Kimsey, who said: "if you took all the crap off this album and had an EP, it would have been huge[...] the other stuff was, like, panic, pressure." A positive review appeared in Spin in November 1990. Reviewer Mark Blackwell wrote "Liberty shows the band in its most appealing form in years (...) Duran Duran once again successfully straddle the line between dance and rock". Blackwell noted that "The new songs are charicastically slick, yet stripped-down. Effects and samples are minimal. The guitar is prominently back and the music is diverse", while admitting that "a couple of the songs, like "Hothead", are stupid and meaningless." Track listing Personnel Duran Duran Simon Le Bon – lead vocals Nick Rhodes – keyboards John Taylor – bass guitar Warren Cuccurullo – guitars Sterling Campbell – drums Additional musicians John Jones – Programming and additional keyboards Tessa Niles – background vocals Carol Kenyon – background vocals Bernard Fowler – background vocals Stan Harrison – saxophone Roddy Lorimer – trumpet Luís Jardim – percussion Spike Edney- additional keyboards, engineer Charts Certifications References 1990 albums Albums produced by Chris Kimsey Albums recorded at Olympic Sound Studios Duran Duran albums Parlophone albums