Remains Of The Gods - Light This City

Advantages: Fantastically inventive 80s art-pop
Disadvantages: A couple of weak tracks

...The Talking Heads early period, with Eno as producer are for me the most interesting of their career and yet most of their albums have only one of two really good songs and then the rest are good but nothing really new and fresh. When I was a student I started getting into them a bit and HMV was selling their albums in the sale for a fiver each, so then armed with my student discount I was paying about £4.50 each and so I bought most of their back catalogue, most of which I enjoyed but if I had to throw them all away and keep one the choice would not be a difficult one. I would keep Remain in Light. Now why is this? Why does it stand out so far from the rest, surely all their albums are the same: homogeneity of art-pop. I say not and I can also say why. Remain in Light is an unusual Talking Heads album because unlike most... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: UK get a bonus track.
Disadvantages: May not like the sound.

...Being Thursdays fifth release, I am reluctant to say that they are still going strong. Thursday’s sound has always been very unique to me and despite the slight change of sound over the years they are still bring out music that is Thursday and only Thursday. People have said when War All The Time came out that it was not as good as their previous releases and that has also been said about this release, but that is always going to be the case. All I can say is that if you like Thursdays unique sound then you should like this album also. Track List 1. Other Side Of The Crash/Over And Out (Of Control) 2. Counting 54321 3. Sugar In The Sacrament 4. At This Velocity 5. We Will Overcome 6. Arc-Lamps Signal Flares A Shower Of White (The Light) 7. Running From The Rain 8. Telegraph Avenue Kiss 9. Lovesong Writer 10... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Some catchy tunes, some good socially conscious morals
Disadvantages: Some filler tracks, not a classic, authenticity of situations

...CITY HIGH ♪♫ ♪♫ ♪♫ ♪♫ City High consist of three members; the boys: Ryan Toby and Robby Pardlo and the girl: Claudette Ortiz. When Ryan, a former child actor, was working on the film Sister Act 2, he befriended female co-star Lauryn Hill. The two aspiring musicians became friends straight away. Lauryn became an international superstar with the Fugees not long after yet despite all her success remained friends with Ryan. When fellow Fugee Wyclef Jean began looking for new acts to produce and manage Lauryn told him about Ryan. Robbie met Wyclef first though and got signed as his first solo act, with Claudette and Ryan going along to the studio to help write and produce. The three had all also known each other from high school. Eventually, since they were always in the studio together... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful