Cynical Reunion Album

Review Score: (4/10)
The two stars for this record are for "If The Lights Go Out," a wonderful slice of folk rock romance featuring Tony Hicks' chiming guitar and the only song on here that sounds like something the Hollies would have recorded (they did two years earlier--with Terry Sylvester) and that Graham Nash also might have recorded.

The rest of the material is slick and shallow. The arrangements are heavy on synthesizer, light on Hollies. This group showcased its brilliance with arrangements on three previous albums full of outside material ("Hollies Sing Dylan," "Romany" and "Buddy Holly") but there's none of that here. In fact the members did not even attend the same studios to make these tracks.

A Hollies fan will have to buy this album for the rare chance at the original vocal trio, but aside from "If the Lights Go Out," there will be nothing here to enjoy aside from those voices.

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