Title: Bland band
Product review: Despite Michael Brown's involvement, this is just a failure. There is no excitement anywhere on these sessions. The Left Banke's two albums are great, but Brown's abandoning the Banke for this really seems like a step down. I've had this on vinyl and got rid of it, bought it on CD thinking maybe I'll like it this time, but no, there is just nothing going on here even remotely close to what The Left Banke did. Subtlety is one thing, but boredom is another. Montage is mostly the latter. It's not terrible, but there is a reason it bombed commercially; it's mediocre. And the cover art is just as unmemorable as the music. I disagree with another reviewer about the second Left Banke album, minus Brown (except for one track.) I think it's better than the first. But Montage? I'll pass (again).
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