How long do you continue to follow a band that no longer gives you what you need? The Fixx's first five albums (six if you include the mostly-live REACT) were mainstays for me, but we're talking about late 80's here. The band's finally getting around to releasing a new album, with a teaser tune, Moving Mountains. Actually, the song's a fundraiser for the Love Hope Strength Foundation , an organization that has the motto "One cancer center in every country, one concert at a time", so it's for a noble cause. But it's the first new music in 8 years for the band, and it's underwhelming. I always enjoyed Jamie West-Oram's uniquely compelling guitar work, the sometimes odd synth sounds of Rupert Greenall, and the oft-confusing lyrics and vocals of Cy Curnin. But like the entire last album, this new song is so...normal. It sounds like we're getting little interesting guitar, dull synth/keyboards, and words that could be inspiring from a charity standpoint but are not as compelling as you'd hope. An artist putting their money where their mouth is as this band is doing (and this isn't all they've done) should be applauded, but can't a guy wish for more sonically? Gimme some edge, gimme some mystery, gimme lyrics I can puzzle over, gimme some of that cyclical ringing six-string! Below is the new song immediately followed by a couple of rare live tracks from 1979.
Eye For Design
Acrobat
Red Skies
I'm Life
Driven Out
Sign of Fire
Are we Ourselves?
Less Cities, More Moving People
Secret Separation
Deeper and Deeper
In Suspense
Built for the Future
Shred of Evidence
Sunshine in the Shade
Fatal Shore
Some People
Camphor
Precious Stone
Fixx - Stand Or Fall (Extended) by d-glazer
Fixx - Reach The Beach(Dub) by djmike81
Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another (Rhythm Scholar Full Deception Remix) by Rhythm Scholar
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