Billy
MacKenzie / Steve
Aungle – Eurocentric
CD,
Album, 2001
Rhythm
of Life Records
“Liberty
Lounge” is pretty much the highlight to this album by the great
MacKenzie with large assistance from Steve Aungle. For one the song
is like a refreshing splash in the face, due that most of the album
is very electro-dance or ballad driven, which is perfectly OK, but
the music is not that challenging compared to other Billy projects.
But “Liberty Lounge” wow. Like most (if not all) Billy
Post-death albums, it is very much a grab-bag of music. The
techno-music doesn't work when one compares it to classics like “Wild
Is The Wind.” It's hard for me to be critical on an album like
this due that Billy wasn't alive to finish it, and by no means is the
work exploitive – one wants these releases. But the pacing of the
album is not that strong. They're very much of a side-one and a
side-two. But what makes Eurocentric
a must is the cover of Sparks' great “Mother Earth.” For the
Billy obsessive, which I belong in that category, the album is a
must. But by no means is it an introduction to his greatness. For
that you have to go back to the Alan Rankine era Associates.
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