Title: Like "Release", too many slow songs
Product review: I must confess I only sampled this album in a store; I listened to every track for at least a few minutes. My main question is: Neil, where are the melodies? The great choruses? It sounds as if they're trying to go in a Depeche Mode mode, mostly dreary, slow, and somber. I'm afraid nothing on it really grabbed me other than "I'm With Stupid", and even that more for the lyrics that the tune itself. I instantly loved past albums such as "Behavior", "Very", and "Nightlife", but my first impression of "Fundamental"?; I'm underwhelmed. Disc two, with the remixes and such, is OK for your next rave party, but is the new version of Dusty Springfield's PSB production "In Private" really necessary? Even with its high-energy bounce, neither Neil Tennant nor Elton John makes one forget Dusty's incredible vocal on the original. It's still hers, boys.
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