Sunday, May 5, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - The Opposition - Empire Days

The Opposition - Empire Days


#103 
1985 Housekeeping
The Opposition
Empire Days
3.5 out of 5
Genre: SynthRock

Highlights:
Five Minutes

So. The U2 meets The Alarm with synths is back. I liked Intimacy. I loved Promises. This one?
It’s damn good. Even though the songs are all a bit long. Even good ones like “Fool for You” (which sound s a LOT like Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers) and “If That Wasn’t Love” feel like they are stretching when the songs clock in a reasonable times. 
I like this album but not as much as the last. It started out promising but soon began to feel like Deja Vu. And it all wearily runs out of steam on the title track which sounds like 1982ish Gary Numan.

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