After the sickeningly self absorbed dross of 'COME LIVE WITH ME', this is about as fresh faced as you're likely to get with a team as calculating as GREGORY/MARSH/WARE Enterprises Inc. But the latest model to roll off the BEF production line is a refreshingly straight forward analysis of the 'cog in machine' syndrome that employs (on the extended dance mix) a profitable collision of Test Dept. and present day Cabs. And yet there is still the feeling of premedited excitement that makes a HEAVEN 17 record sound so false. Perhaps Ersatz would be the word to use. Review by BILL BLACK. |