Ultimately, " Vienna ", with its winning formula of cold futurism and big rock textures, took Ultravox out of the margins and into the big-haired'80s mainstream ."
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The first record in 16 years with original composer-guitarist Kerry Livgren, " Somewhere " seamlessly fuses Brit art-rock textures with an American-heartland sound and ranks with the band's best.
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This listener found himself voting " no " to the tracks where synthesizers, other electronics, backbeat, and rock textures make the resources of the Boston Pops superfluous; the Pops might as well not be there.
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The album was seen by reviewers as a disappointing follow-up to Faithfull's " new wave arrangements of the previous one for a more mainstream rock texture, using over a dozen session musicians and, for some, giving a certain anonymous feel to the songs.
