Dream Academy - Remembrance Days ( VINYL 11-15-2011 )

Attempting to follow up the enormous success of their debut proved to be a difficult task for the British trio Dream Academy. Hugh Padgham (Genesis, the Police) came on board to produce the band with frontman Nick Laird-Clowes, resulting in a more glossy sheen to much of the material. "Indian Summer" kicks things off, and while echoing the wistfulness and even incorporating a chant-like chorus similar to their massive hit "Life in a Northern Town," it fails to impress in a similar manner. "Here" is a lovely, understated ballad that concludes with a flourish and Kate St. John playing oboe, and "Ballad in 4/4" is a Beatlesque tale of infidelity featuring Laird-Clowes adding harmonica. Remembrance Days, however, failed to make a splash commercially and received more exposure through the use of "Power to Believe" during a key scene of the hit movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles than through airplay. Not a bad record, just a pale imitation of the first.

CONDITION: Used! Promotional imprint on front cover.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Indian Summer 4:56
A2 The Lesson Of Love 4:28
A3 Humdrum 4:27
A4 Power To Believe 5:15
A5 Hampstead Girl 3:40
A6 Here 4:21
B1 In The Hands Of Love 4:49
B2 Ballad In 4/4 3:58
B3 Doubleminded 3:53
B4 Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometime 3:42
B5 In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas) 6:43