| The Adventures, who formed five years ago
in Belfast, gained Top 20 status with
1988's
single Broken Land, but the six-piece's
third
LP finds them moving away from bittersweet,
mainstream folk-pop, to more traditional
Celtic melodies, seasoned by occasional
blasts
of downhome, rootsy country picking,
silvery
violins and mournful pedal-steel guitars.
The mood here is either resolutely
up or
distinctly furrowed of brow: typical
of the
former are Bright New Morning and Washington
Deceased; of the latter the haunted
Desert
Rose (written with Lloyd Cole), and
Don't
Blame It On The Moon, where with an
astrology
book in his pocket and head full of
William
Butler Yeatsian poesy, singer Terry
Sharpe
consoles his lover. Eleven softly lilting
songs to take the fancy of star-children
everywhere. |
