#459/2109
October 1986
Colin Newman
Commercial Suicide
Genre: Experi-Dream
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Their Terrain
Commercial Suicide
Hey, look! It’s another solo record by a Wire Guy. Only this time…it doesn’t suck.
It’s lush and inviting and downright delightful for a while. But, eventually, like all the WireGuys, it mires itself in self-indulgent experimentation and I can’t wait for it to be over. Dammit. The Chamber Pop of the title track is delicious, though and is a harbinger of what’s coming from Britain in about 10 years. This album really teeters for me. Between the bells of self-indulgence and beauty.
This is somebody’s favorite album and I would very much like to meet that person.
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