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Amplified Heart
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Amplified Heart
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Despite its title,
is one of
's more acoustic works. A simple instrumentation of guitars and keyboards, augmented here and there by British
veterans like
,
, and
, serves to set up a series of songs of romantic disillusionment. Declaring "my life is just an image of a roller coaster, anyway" and "I don't understand anything," among other things, over and over the songs speak of confusion and disappointment deriving from failed love affairs. The approach is much more introspective than that taken on the group's previous album of new music,
, but
and
's musical restraint supports it well. This is an album to listen to when you've just broken up with your lover, or even when you're just in the mood to think about lost lovers from long ago -- self-pity set to music. ~ William Ruhlmann