Artist: Tears for Fears
Album: Raoul and
the Kings of Spain
Released: 1995
Source: Epic
Genre:
pop rock/new wave
Format: eac.ape.302mb
Review:
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The second Tears for Fears album following
Curt Smith's departure finds Roland Orzabel treading water (and
self-consciously deep water at that). Long removed from the simple,
melodic melancholy of the band's early work and abandoning the
mid-period Beatles-influenced pop, Raoul and the Kings of Spain often
borders on progressive rock. There's some genuinely pretty, if
unexciting, music like the piano-driven ballad "Secrets," with it's
soaring guitar line, and the gentle "Sketches of Pain." Unfortunately,
everything is undone by Orzabel's lyrics (mostly co-written with
guitarist/keyboardist Alan Griffiths). There seems to be a lack of ideas
that cannot be concealed by the words, which are either inscrutable or
embarrassingly silly ("What's the matter with your life/Did someone come
and shoot your wife," he asks on "Sorry"). Listeners on both sides of
the Atlantic couldn't be bothered and the act's commercial fortunes fell
even further.
Track List:
1 Raoul and the Kings of Spain Griffiths, Orzabal 5:15
2
Falling Down Griffiths, Orzabal 4:55
3 Secrets Griffiths, Orzabal
4:41
4 God's Mistake Griffiths, Orzabal 3:47
5 Sketches of
Pain Griffiths, Orzabal 4:20
6 Los Reyes Católicos Griffiths,
Orzabal 1:44
7 Sorry Griffiths, Orzabal 4:48
8 Humdrum and
Humble Griffiths, Orzabal 4:10
9 I Choose You Griffiths, Orzabal
3:25
10 Don't Drink the Water Griffiths, Orzabal 4:51
11 Me
and My Big Ideas Griffiths, Orzabal 4:32
12 Los Reyes Católicos
(Reprise) Griffiths, Orzabal 3:43
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