After an aeon in the wilderness, punctuated by acts of sheer imbecility such as covering [a]Public Enemy[/a]’s ‘911 Is A Joke’, somehow, miraculously, new romantic godfathers the Duranies are back with their strongest album since 1983’s ‘Seven And The Ragged Tiger’.
Producer [a]Mark Ronson[/a] does an astounding job of taking them back to the ‘Fab Five’ glory days of ‘Rio’: ‘Being Followed’ and ‘Leave A Light On’ are the sonic equivalent of a shoeless walk in a pastel linen suit and Princess Di haircut along a tropical beach. Elsewhere, the four-fifths-complete line-up revisits the new romantic Blitz Club funk of their debut album on ‘Safe (In The Heat Of The Moment)’ and ‘Girl Panic!’.
John Doran
7/10