Altered Images CDSD

I so wanted to love the new single but they forgot the chorus and I got bored half way through.

That new video is giving me "Women Laughing Alone With Salad" vibes.

I always thought AI were great despite the singer, not because of her, but this reunion definitely reckons it's the other way round.

I kind of love the new album. The first single is easily the worst thing on it.

The "I Could Be Happy" single version is infinite leagues better than those corny remixes that are being praised upthread, I always seem to forget how wrong ILM was/is* until I start posting again and find these chronicles of goofy takes.

*anyone else remember the Brooks & Dunn guerilla-street-team years, gee I wonder how those guys have weathered the past couple decades...

The band themselves preferred the remix, that's why that's the version on the album (though this is according to Martin Rushent, who knows if he was a reliable narrator).

Altered Images *is* corny. If you like your post-punk more serious, there are plenty of other, better options. If you want 1982 distilled in a bottle, that remix is where it's at.

S: love and kisses

I just found out about this new album today randomly and ordered it before I could reconsider. I wasn't into the title track/first single (which kitchen person called "easily the worst thing on it," a few posts back) but "Glitter Ball" is better (and its music sounds like it could've been on Destroyer's "Kaputt") - I didn't listen to anything else on it so far. But I did listen to the 4-song EP "Clara Libre" that they put out at the same time (apparently it's a bonus disc if you ordered the new album from their U.K. webstore), which is comprised of new versions of old AI tracks done in a MIDI-Cuban style:
https://www.discogs.com/release/24368120-Altered-Images-Clara-Libre-EP
If you're curious, the whole EP is on the band's YT channel: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiyz6fpbq5joG1W1PzZQPIFS6TFDiCyWl