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Track List
01) No Small Thing
02) The Tipping Point
03) Long, Long, Long Time
04) Break The Man
05) My Demons
06) Rivers of Mercy
07) Please Be Happy
08) Master Plan
09) End of Night
10) Stay
01) No Small Thing
02) The Tipping Point
03) Long, Long, Long Time
04) Break The Man
05) My Demons
06) Rivers of Mercy
07) Please Be Happy
08) Master Plan
09) End of Night
10) Stay
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2022
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The Tipping Point is the seventh studio album by English pop rock band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 2022 through Concord Records. It is the band's first studio album since Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, released nearly eighteen years prior. Tracks on the album include "The Tipping Point", which was released with a music video in October 2021, as well as "My Demons", "Please Be Happy", and "Stay". "Stay" was previously released on the group's 2017 compilation Rule the World.
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It’s been almost 20 years since Tears For Fears last graced the release schedule, with fans growing to view 2004’s ‘Everybody Loves A Happy Ending’ as something of an unexpected coda. Yet the band themselves seemingly never viewed it this way – sessions for ‘The Tipping Point’ have been under way for years, sometimes secretly, with work continuing at a glacial pace.
But, it was ever thus. Artistic challenges and personal differences have long marked Tears For Fears, and ‘The Tipping Point’ hasn’t been immune to this – indeed, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith both walked out of the project at different junctures, only to return when the friction had abetted.
Sonically, it’s a lush, complex, hyper-focussed work, one whose fastidious grasp of finer detail stands proudly alongside the studio auteurs’ more halo’d work. ‘No Small Thing’ is a gripping, intense opener, before segueing into the rather more plaintive climes that beset the twinkling cinematics of the title cut.
‘Long, Long Time’ is a bracing piece of sub-zero synth pop, while ‘Break The Man’ is Curt Smith unleashed, a lyrical barb against the patriarchal systems that surround us. Indeed, the daring complexity of the arrangements is set alongside some of the most open, emotive lyrics Tears For Fears have ever ushered out into the world. Roland Orzabal’s wife passed away in 2017, and much of the record touches on love, grief, and the attempt to find a different sort of focus.
‘My Demons’ kicks off a difficult mid-album triptych, with the plaintive ‘Please Be Happy’ featuring a naked vocal. ‘End Of Night’ is rather more rousing, however, almost militaristic in tone, its pulsating directness pursuing solitary paths.
Closing with ‘Stay’, Tears For Fears’ first album in 20 years is marked by an incredible sense of unity. A project driven by a focussed, finessed sense of purpose, ‘The Tipping Point’ is an excellent song cycle, one that touches on their innermost feelings. A vastly collaborative experience, the difficult nature of the sonics is matched by the joy unravelling them – our only hope is it doesn’t take the band two decades to conjure a follow up.
SOURCE: https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/tears-for-fears-the-tipping-point
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The Tipping Point is the seventh studio album by English pop rock band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 2022 through Concord Records. It is the band's first studio album since Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, released nearly eighteen years prior. Tracks on the album include "The Tipping Point", which was released with a music video in October 2021, as well as "My Demons", "Please Be Happy", and "Stay". "Stay" was previously released on the group's 2017 compilation Rule the World.
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It’s been almost 20 years since Tears For Fears last graced the release schedule, with fans growing to view 2004’s ‘Everybody Loves A Happy Ending’ as something of an unexpected coda. Yet the band themselves seemingly never viewed it this way – sessions for ‘The Tipping Point’ have been under way for years, sometimes secretly, with work continuing at a glacial pace.
But, it was ever thus. Artistic challenges and personal differences have long marked Tears For Fears, and ‘The Tipping Point’ hasn’t been immune to this – indeed, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith both walked out of the project at different junctures, only to return when the friction had abetted.
Sonically, it’s a lush, complex, hyper-focussed work, one whose fastidious grasp of finer detail stands proudly alongside the studio auteurs’ more halo’d work. ‘No Small Thing’ is a gripping, intense opener, before segueing into the rather more plaintive climes that beset the twinkling cinematics of the title cut.
‘Long, Long Time’ is a bracing piece of sub-zero synth pop, while ‘Break The Man’ is Curt Smith unleashed, a lyrical barb against the patriarchal systems that surround us. Indeed, the daring complexity of the arrangements is set alongside some of the most open, emotive lyrics Tears For Fears have ever ushered out into the world. Roland Orzabal’s wife passed away in 2017, and much of the record touches on love, grief, and the attempt to find a different sort of focus.
‘My Demons’ kicks off a difficult mid-album triptych, with the plaintive ‘Please Be Happy’ featuring a naked vocal. ‘End Of Night’ is rather more rousing, however, almost militaristic in tone, its pulsating directness pursuing solitary paths.
Closing with ‘Stay’, Tears For Fears’ first album in 20 years is marked by an incredible sense of unity. A project driven by a focussed, finessed sense of purpose, ‘The Tipping Point’ is an excellent song cycle, one that touches on their innermost feelings. A vastly collaborative experience, the difficult nature of the sonics is matched by the joy unravelling them – our only hope is it doesn’t take the band two decades to conjure a follow up.
SOURCE: https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/tears-for-fears-the-tipping-point
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