Title: Faustian
Product review: Never has a band taken so long to achieve superstardom, never has a band become irrelevant so quickly. This was their eagerly awaited breakthrough album but it came at too high a price. Desperate, it seems, to do the unexpected for their first Warner Bros release the group diluted the distinctive sound of Life's Rich Pageant, Document and Green, anxious not to be seen to cash in on a winning formula. The result is an album whose first side is unlistenable, its second requiring use of the programme button to select `Half a World Away' (just), `Country Feedback' and `Me in Honey'. Oh, and for a band whose covers were always pretty ropey (think Fables of the Reconstruction), Out of Time plumbs new depths of banality.
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