CALLING ALL STATIONS

I kinda trusted Banks and Rutherford's compositional abilities before listening to this album, so I my attitude towards the album was much less hostile than I could have been... and then again, by the time I'd heard the album enough times, it became obvious: it's just... not good.

And it's a pity, because I love the title track, for instance. And yet it fades out when it still had things to "say". And that happens again with many tracks, they seem to be building towards someplace and... they fade out. What the hell is that??? I had no problem with Ray Wilson's voice, but when he has to sing such uneventful songs, there's not much to do.

In any case, apart from the first song, a couple of ballads like Not About Us (very nice chorus) and maybe the closer "One Man's Fool", this album is mediocre at best.