Obviously a full new material album would be great, but in this case, you got both, classic Tears For Fears music live as four brand new songs, the title of the album was inspired by Matt Haig's book Notes "On A Nervous Planet", which talks about how modern life can feed into our anxiety, subsequently helping you to live a better life.
The new studio tracks fit in effortlessly with a curated smorgasbord of the band's most-loved tunes which were performed live last summer in Franklin, Tennessee as part of their "The Tipping Point" tour and features a number of songs from "The Tipping Point" album itself, another thing, this is the band's first official live album and as one of the best touring bands around, you have to question why it took them so long to release a live album which has been released simultaneously to coincide with a feature film which is out this week. But it’s here and some things are worth waiting for.
Unfortunately, there are certain things the critics quite don't like, the artwork of the album that used elements of AI, the digital collages for the creative process, which actually pays
homage to classic Tears For Fears imagery with its blazing yellow
sunflowers coupled with the juxtaposition of the new with the graphic of
an astronaut which represents one of their latest songs "Astronaut",
The brand new tracks features and intense and enigmatic bassline in "Say Goodbye To Mum And Dad" which still feels uplifting, the gorgeous "The Girl That I Call Home", is the Roland’s love letter to his wife Emily where he tells her ‘You are everything I ever wanted’, the new songs are well-crafted and captivating definitely, the emotional "Astronaut" that sounds like a song taken from the epic "Songs From The Big Chari", with Roland's intense falsetto with expansive psuchedelic crescendos, to cover the story of feeling alienated and you simply have to escape, with a more prog rock and dreamy new wave sound that highlights upon the rest of the new tracks.
About the concert tracks, these are a remainder of the glorious past legacy of the band, some of the band’s most-loved cuts, such as the superbly-arranged "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", with its climatic bridge and upbeat riff which tells the story of a myriad of contemporary issues that encompass financial, political and environmental issues as evidence, "The Tipping Point" is incredibly moving, telling the story of the ‘tipping point’ between life and death as is ‘No Small Thing’ with its Cash-esque riffs and folky vibe which again demonstrates the heart and soul of the bands lyrics. You have the epic drums and psychedelic-pop beats of "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" where you get a true sense of the power of Roland and Kurt's vocals to the meticulous arrangement of "Shout" from their seminal album "Songs from the Big Chair" which always is mind-blowing on the live stage, this album really spirits you away to the joy of watching Tears for Fears live.
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