The Guardian
60
(BMG)
Citizens of Boomtown succeeds best when at its most understated. But then they added the rap track …
The first Boomtown Rats album for 36 years comes trailed by promotional bumf that really does it no favours at all. Pondering the state of the world, it asks, amid a great deal of other hyperbole: “Where is the noise that feels like this? Who is going to sing these blues?” The band’s pitch would lead you to believe that first time round, they were somewhere in the rock pantheon between Bob Dylan and the Stones at their most commanding, and that they’re returning only because they’ve been beseeched to by disenfranchised kids who’ve only been kept alive by occasional plays of Banana Republic on Absolute 80s. The hype is so overdone that this really would have to be a new Never Mind the Bollocks – at the very least – to justify it. And it’s not.
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Fri Mar 13 09:00:02 GMT 2020