It's no coincidence that
the Silver Convention
's fifth album,
Love in a Sleeper
, is their most uneven. After 1977's
Golden Girls
, producers
Michael Kunze
and
Silvester Levay
parted company -- and with
Levay
having moved on,
Kunze
produced this album himself and hired
John Davis
to do the arranging.
had done much of the songwriting together, but this time
worked with several new songwriters. And while
's four previous albums were recorded in Munich, this 1978 LP was recorded in both Munich and Philadelphia. Add all of those things up, and you have a CD that sounds a lot different from its predecessors -- although the group's forte was still Euro-disco. This isn't a bad album; in fact, tunes like
"Mission to Venus,"
"Breakfast in Bed,"
and the Latin-flavored
"Acuestate Conmigo"
are catchy and likable. Nonetheless, the LP is uneven and unfocused and
's input is definitely missed. Without him
just wasn't the same. Although generally decent,
is the group's least essential album. ~ Alex Henderson