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Music > Albums > Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2005) Retail CD
added on May 27, 2007, at 17:39 by elejoe

Few people would think to match the synth-heavy Tears for Fears who lit up the '80s, to the new material on Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, the band's first since 1989. The vocals of lead singer Roland Orzabal, powered by some all-cylinders thing, still squash all traces of irony in their path, and there's a moodiness to the music, minus a lot of the old broodiness, that borders on the masterly. Yet the sound has changed completely. Old-school overproduction has fallen away in favour of real guitars, pounding pianos, and a melody-driven, Beatles-y sensibility. It's there on the title track and first single "Call Me Mellow," and only slightly eclipsed by something pleasantly Bacharach-ish on "Secret World." Everybody who loves a happy ending will find one here: Tears for Fears skirts the has-been trap impressively, translating years of experience into play-it-again, sophisticated modern pop worth paying attention to. --Tammy La Gorce

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