It took the order from the Seattle Theater Group of a musical work accompanying a choreography by Kate Wallich to take Michael Hadreas out of the context of pop songs as he had never dared to do on his five previous albums. The result is amazing: mainly instrumental, the compositions of Hadreas borrow from contemporary music (Just a Room in opening, the almost classic Scherzo and Cenote) as much as post-punk (the title track taking on a groove unexpected dub, the unleashed Hellbent) and electronic music. When he returns to the more formal song, it is by releasing his prettiest falsetto, incantatory on the seven hovering minutes of Heremromantic on electro-pop lace Pop Song. Almost nine minutes, Eye in the Wall turns out to be a risky but successful exercise in tribal and psychedelic house song invaded by mellow synths halfway through and ending on a groove that we would have heard on The Dark Side of the Moon. Above all, experimentation never bury the emotion — a success.
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