SIDES

It's a good thing that Private Parts and Pieces came out alongside this album, because this presents little that will be of interest to prog fans until the last few extended tracks and nothing which would appeal to listeners to the mainstream genres Anthony's record company seems to have been trying to market him to. Let's see, what do we have here? Um and Aargh, a shoddy attempt at New Wave? I Want Your Love, a soft soul number? Lucy Will, an acceptable but not brilliant ballad? Side Door, a horrible attempt at disco which neglects to consider that disco needs to be catchy? That's just the first four songs; the whole album is like this.

A horribly botched record; the few songs present which Phillips seems to actually care about are cheapened by inclusion with this lot, and aren't exactly of a standard to be worth listening to on their own either. A career nadir, and unfortunately not the first misguided attempt to pitch Phillips to a mainstream audience he just isn't suited to catering for.