Accessible Utopia at its best!

Review Score: (8/10)
This de-listed title is one of my favorite Utopia recordings released. This is pure power pop that is clearly a team effort - not just warmed-over Todd tunes.

The album kicks off brilliantly with the powerful "Libertine" which, in my opinion is the best Kasim Sultan lead vocal cut in the band' catalogue. By the way, the song's lead break sounds like guitar, but anyone who has seen the band play this live knows that Roger Powell is the one shredding those riffs on keyboards. The other Kasim tracks, "Call it What You Will", which reminiscent to "Set Me Free", and "Private Universe" are nearly as strong and easily as catchy

"Bad Little Actress", "Say Yeah" and "Chapter and Verse" are wonderful Beatle-esque tributes with Todd and Kasim doing their best Lennon-McCartney not offered on "Deface the Music". Willie Wilcox's tracks are probably the most fun. "Neck on Up" has the cutting, and self-depricating qualities of his brilliant track "You Make Me Crazy" from "Adventures..,"; while "Princess of the Universe" is just a simple, but fun rocker ala "Jealousy".

Roger's tunes include the show stopping "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" and the mediocre "Burn Three Times". Todd, meanwhile moves deftly from the torch carrying "I'm Looking Through You But I'm Talking to Myself" to the rock-out dance hit "Hammer In My Heart."

All in all, what you have here is a collection of some outstanding sing along tunes that will keep you coming back again and again. Be glad that this disc is even available as an import because the Network lable took a bath years ago. Get it while you can. A Lost Treasure

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