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Title: A much "hipper" Fish.
Review: After the horribly disappointing "Suits", it took me quite awhile before I could summon up the nerve to purchase this CD. Based on the strength of some of the songs I heard when I caught Fish live in the US, I decided to take a chance. I was glad I did. "Sunsets On Empire" is really a very good album that finds Fish taking on a new style of music and succeeding wonderfully. Gone are the overdone orchestral arrangements of his first solo album "Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors" (a fine solo debut, but lately it's sounding very dated). This is a harder-edged guitar-oriented Fish, and--dare I speak the word--a much hipper Fish. Even though the old man's voice is noticeably weakening with time, he plays to his strengths and the overall vocal delivery comes off well. His follow-up release "Raingods With Zippos", while not quite as solid an album, is also worth the money.
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