#480/1113
November 1985
The Dream Academy
The Dream Academy
Genre: Dream Pop
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Life in a Northern Town
On the Edge of Forever
(Johnny) New Light
Was there ever a more aptly named band?
The only track I ever heard was the single. The rest…? Like a lush, psychedelic U2. It’s on the second song that they prove what they really want to be with lyrics that literally rip from Bono and the boys (two hearts beat as one). With superstars like David Gilmour and Peter Buck and Pino Palladino, it’s hard to go wrong and it really doesn’t. It gets a lot treacly and due towards the end but it’s so front loaded it’s hard to fault them for running out the clock by the end.
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