The Fixx Move Mountains, Don't Move Scruffy Anymore

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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