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Number of Next Wave (2002) Reviews: 1
Reviewer: John Fitzgerald, Human resources staff database assistant January 09, 2003 Maybe they will grow on me and there are a few exceptions, but basically the vocals on
"Next wave" REALLY hurt the album as many of these tracks would have sufficed as
instrumentals quite nicely. "Albatross" is slow in starting but you won't mind as it's nice
sounding stuff. There's a thin guitar tone used by Peter here but he's got a nice echo going
on and it's about the same tempo etc. as the classic FM version once it kicks in. Nick
Cave handles the vocals well on the somber reworking of the Velvet Underground's
"Sunday morning" though it has a music box type plink to the keyboards throughout the
track. The moaning keys are the better ones on this tune though. "Falling (G1)" is an
upbeat twist on the Eric Satie theme which is one of the best tracks but would have been
even better had they left out those "radio" sounding voices. "All of my beautiful friends" is
too echoy and goes nowhere, sort of a cross between Madonna's "Erotica" heavy
breathing kind of material and Led Zeppelin's "Hats off to Roy Harper". "Hazy lazy" is a
nice bouncy tune but you feel like it's missing something that could've made it better
though it can't be placed. With it's strings and drum machines, "Only love" tries to be like
Robbie Robertson's "Somewhere down the crazy river" but it may have been cool had
those talk vocals been omitted. "Lost angels" has keyboard swells and "la la's" with
electronic volleys that try to be vocals but still may class as an instrumental which makes it
one of the more listenable tracks on the CD. By the time "Before you broke my heart"
rolls around, you feel that vocalist Monica Queen is trying to sound like Kate Bush with a
Cyndi Lauper squeak and the backing vocals on this track replicate Marvin Gaye's
"Sexual healing" which doesn't help it's originality factor. "Gemini (G3)" is a good
keyboard led instrumental if you can ignore the watery electronic backing vocals halfway
in. "Dreaming" is a reverb keyboard exercise with intrusive poetic narration which should
have been left out as that would have made it more listenable. "Revolution" is an upbeat
number which would have been nice had the vocal doodling been expunged. The piano is
the best part on "My sunset" which would have been a good instrumental but it ends up
sounding like the title track to Madonna's "Erotica" album (specifically this time). The
mid to slow tempoed "1975 E Sunrise Blvd" is listenable because it has no vocals and
"Back to nature (Ambient)" is a good instrumental though the bird chirps are intrusive
though they are still better than the vocal "pieces" used on the other tracks throughout the
album. Well, I think I've made it clear as to what I think is this album's downfall but for
those of you that like the sound of the vocal touches I have mentioned, then go for it.
