#439/2118
October 17 1986
The Stranglers
Dreamtime
Genre: SynthPop
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Always the Sun
This one starts off strong, with the promise that the band is continuing it’s “Better than Lou Reed while aping Lou Reed and proving that Lou Reed could have been great if he didn’t Lou Reed everything up.” from the last record.
But then it all gets muddied up with synthy mood stuff and the entire album seems to lose interest in itself.
I mean, it tries to go for some kind of poppy sound but by the time we get to “Too Precious” and “Mayan Skies” I’ve lost track. It’s an non-cohesive record made by a band that doesn’t know what it wants to be.
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