Track listing
- 1 Just Add Water 3:50
- 2 Alive on Arrival 4:31
- 3 Feel Someone Else's Pain 3:12
- 4 A Bridge on Fire 4:06
- 5 Name of Love 2:57
- 6 Angels 2:51
- 7 Background Love 2:24
- 8 I Am I Am 4:54
- 9 She Rocks 3:27
- 10 My Kinda People 5:15
- 11 Hopetoun Bridge 4:22
- 12 Kingdom Come 3:05
- 13 Love Like the Moon 3:47
- Total length: 48:41
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Dave Dobbyn got some deeply serious stuff off his chest in 1998's The Islander. In this follow-up he's feeling distinctly cheerier. The bouncy 'Just Add Water' was deserved hit, though the live version on Together in Concert: Live with Tim Finn and Bic Runga makes the original sound tame. 'Alive on Arrival' offers a prayer of thanks for Dobbyn's own escape from some problems with alcohol, I think. It's a very amusing jazz-like number also featuring some mildly Indian influences. And flute. Quite a train ride.
The album swings along with some good kiwi rock until 'Background Love', which is a sweet little paean to the feeling of finding that what you were looking for was right behind you all along. Some nice horns in the bridge. 'I Am I Am' is almost a big band jazz number. 'She Rocks' is an inventive rocker that I could see Robert Palmer doing. Then it's into a flat-out, pull out all the stops, table-thumping pub-rock number, reminiscent of Dobbyn's old bands Th' Dudes and DD Smash: 'My Kinda People'.
The closing three tracks are a big change of tone; three reflective ballads, with 'Love Like the Moon' in particular being almost an instrumental in the vein of 'Palace' from Lament for the Numb.
The album swings along with some good kiwi rock until 'Background Love', which is a sweet little paean to the feeling of finding that what you were looking for was right behind you all along. Some nice horns in the bridge. 'I Am I Am' is almost a big band jazz number. 'She Rocks' is an inventive rocker that I could see Robert Palmer doing. Then it's into a flat-out, pull out all the stops, table-thumping pub-rock number, reminiscent of Dobbyn's old bands Th' Dudes and DD Smash: 'My Kinda People'.
The closing three tracks are a big change of tone; three reflective ballads, with 'Love Like the Moon' in particular being almost an instrumental in the vein of 'Palace' from Lament for the Numb.
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