Tears For Fears are somewhat in the synth-pop area, but they go a little bit beyond that, mixing in elements of that very loose genre “New Wave”. So, although their chart-ready songs Shout and Everybody Wants To Rule The World are on here and sit alongside the likes of ABC and Ultravox, they’ve also got that little bit of edge. Perhaps this is because, despite the presence of the ubiquitous Linn drum machine, they have a real drummer on all tracks (Manny Elias, apart from Shout where it’s Chris Hughes). There’s a great bass break towards the end of Mothers Talk that leads into a bit of a mini-jam – this for me was a track that stood out against the others that tended towards a bit of sameness.
And consequently I don’t have much else to say about this album. It’s very mid-Eighties in the aspects that it brings together, feeling both more modern compared to Duran Duran’s Rio, but also still very much of the Eighties. I remember at the back half of the Sixties there were quite a few albums that felt that their significance was not so much the brilliance of the music on them, but how they showed an evolutionary intermediary towards the next sound in music. That’s what this one felt like. That’s not to say that the tracks aren’t good, I pretty much liked them all, but I also can’t recall them very well and it wasn’t that long ago that I listened to them.
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