|
The Artist - The Fixx The Song - "You Don't Have To Prove Yourself" The Album - Want That Life |
Possibly the best effort
to date by The Fixx - Want That Life offers bright colors, warm tone,
percussive sway, and a hypnotist or two.
|
With catchy melody and phrase "You Don't Have To Prove Yourself" has numerous guitar tracks. The strum all but mesmerizing us into obeyance, the quieter plucks create orbits of distant backdrop for the listeners mind to explore the expanse within.
 |
|
|
Better to carry the message, especially when it is light, that to attempt to define it.
As usual, Cy Curnin's lyrics are deep and thoughtful, sot with wonder, and thought-provoking to the point of philosophical scrambles sought in the universe of our heads.
" Touch," the opener, is a splendid tune to slap on just as you enter the freeway. Sweet and tender, it is the Fixx to a "T".
"Are You Satisfied?" Is a heartbreaker in tone and tempo, but the poetry offers hope. Do, however, watch out for those affective minor chords in guitarist Jamie West-Oram's Spanish nylon acoustic solo, for in it are sensations of sweet sadness.
The title track is a pleasant near-chant. The lyrics seem common in their tug, but soon their thousand possible meanings begin to lead us into further speculation about... Everything.
"We Don't Own The World" is a take on those who would seem to, with a zinger or two at (perhaps) the media.
"Hollywood..." doesn't play to be noticed, yet again, the lyrical sidepoints limit views on humanity not covered by most.
"Straight Round the Bend" is a song to get lost in, a mix 'n match of mildly euphoric sounds. This one surely belongs on the radio.
"Roger and Out" is mysterious, dark, suspenseful. They pause, Cy orates, then the boys cue in and Jamie chimes his signature sky of sound. Another hypnotizer.
"Taking the Long Way Home" has kind of that positive + pet favorite construct. Happy reminders of hope to. F
Finally, "Brave" is even higher in a child like glimmer of that which all of us still have within.
You wont find any "Is That It?" rockers, but its going to remain classic Fixx as an Album. And its good to see their nods to Charlie Barrett, Dan K. Brown and Chris Tait.
Enjoy.
-Morgan Field
October 2003