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CLASSIX NOUVEAUX La Verite

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I have always assumed that Classix Nouveau were the kind of band I would like without actually knowing much about them - like most people I know their biggest hit 'Is It A Dream' and I like that, and I know that they look like a band with a tendency to be a bit left of centre and, well, gothy, and I usually like that too, so I was looking forward to listening to this particular album which is a reissue of the second Classix Nouveau album from 1982 with an additional two bonus tracks (b-sides to the singles 'Is It A Dream' and 'Because You're Young' and as very ordinary b-sides indeed I'll be saying no more about them!). I was hoping I would find a new band to be excited about, instead I found a band who were probably quite excited about themselves at the time, and who are probably quite uncomfortable with the album now. Here's the thing... this album - with the very notable exception of 'Is It A Dream' which sounds great - sounds like Ultravox in a moment of absent minded noodling about in the studio... and that is quite frankly a great shame. There's 13 tracks here - the 2 extra tracks I dismissed earlier and of the remaining eleven that make the album proper two of them are the oh-so-pompous 'Foreward' and 'Finale' (read thirty seconds of electronic bleeping and 'atmosphere'), 'To Believe' is a keyboard drenched cod-goth anthem - the sort of thing that gives goth a bad name and sounds like it was written for a musical, and this sets the standard for the album with the exception of 'Is It A Dream' which sounds like it was made by a different band, and the upbeat and poppy 'Never Again', but otherwise this is a pretty dismal listening experience. Not an album I'll listen to again, which given my feelings before listening, is a shame.

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