best moment on Lexicon of Love

so this is out....

http://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ABC-The-Lexicon-of-Love-II.jpg

Yep. I haven't heard it yet because I'm worried it'll be awful.

Anyone heard it yet?

Is that Eva Green? Got 30 seconds in before I switched to something else. I'll give it another go at some point soonish.

Quite fearfully, I listened twice through the other day and was positively shocked by how much I enjoyed it. The first three or four songs, in particular, are terrific.

Curious what others think...

criminal that "hip hip hooray / yippie-yi, yippie-yi-ay" wasn't an option in this poll

Tom Ewing writes about it here:

http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/145006620611/blame-cupid

And Chris Roberts writes about it here for The Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/20313-abc-lexicon-of-love-2-album-review

Good review from Chris Roberts. "One of the fey, foppish, book-reading, film-watching, idealist army"? Haha, yes, guilty.

Clearly I need to dedicate some time to check out this sequel.

I'm curious as to whether this holds up as a sequel to The Lexicon of Love, or whether it may as well be just another late-period ABC album with the name bolted onto it.

This sounded like a bad idea but I couldn't resist listening to it and it's actually really good. Well done! Don't be afraid to give it a chance.

I liked it a lot. Only recall one eh track, but it was in the background so maybe I didn't hear it right. Don't really get the idea of it as a sequel, though, any more than any band with an identifiable sound essentially releases a series of sequels. When was the last ABC album, anyway?

I'm not too enamoured with it although the strings are nice. I miss the hard brittle funk edge that was on the original record

man all these basslines are insane