Seventeen years since their previous album “Everybody Loves A Happy Ending” was criminally overlooked despite its majesty, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith reunite for another comeback, encouraged by the fact that they’re filling stadiums and arenas again.
As our mad world gets madder and we surf tipping points daily, this aurally glossy but emotionally raw record feels powerfully pertinent. Addressing themes of bereavement, ghosts, hope, the patriarchy and surveillance culture, it's feverishly tuned in. Yet the production is so sublime, the hooks so plentiful and the dynamics so alluring that it goes down like your favourite ice cream. The album is a Trojan horse in a monsoon of tunes.
It seems Kafka-esque that Tears For Fears' wilderness years were spent partly being coerced by managers to try co-writing with modern hit makers. They're Tears For Fears, for god's sake. Having remembered that, their rediscovered confidence is a joy to hear on the luxuriant title track, the busy My Demons, and the stately Rivers Of Mercy which channels Woman In Chains. No Small Thing builds from folk to full- on White Album flare-up.The Tipping Point album is tip-top art-pop.
Chris Roberts
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