Like many entries in
the Durutti Column
's discography,
Fidelity
features ten separate tracks that have hardly any aesthetic resemblance to one another.
Vini Reilly
's positive musical attitude permeates each track, however, allowing the diverse songs to function together nicely. The almost aggressive drum work on
's opening title track starts everything off with an undeniable
rock
twist that transforms toward the record's end into an eclectic, postmodern work of art, complete with nifty dance and
ambient
moments on
"Sanko"
and
"Grace,"
respectively. An acoustic
jazz
guitar/trumpet duo (appropriately titled
"G and T"
) gets sandwiched in the middle of so much synthetic
opera
,
trance
, and just about every other musical form that has even so much as tickled
Reilly
's ears.
contains no hit singles, but it's hard to imagine that such a constrained
pop
design could ever interest the prolific
-- a composer/performer of amazing imagination and dexterity. ~ Vincent Jeffries