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The Visitors [Half-Speed Mastered 2 LP]
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The Visitors [Half-Speed Mastered 2 LP]
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The Visitors [Half-Speed Mastered 2 LP]
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's final album was recorded during a period of major personal shakeups, principally in the decision by
and
to follow the same route to divorce that had already been taken by
. Both male members of the group would soon remarry, but at the time, despite all of these changes in their circumstances,
was never intended as
's swan song -- they were to go on recording together. That may explain why, rather than a threadbare, thrown-together feel,
is a beautifully made, very sophisticated album, filled with serious but never downbeat songs, all beautifully sung and showing off some of the bold songwriting efforts. The title track is a topical song about Soviet dissidents that also manages to be very catchy, while
sounds like a Broadway number (and a very good one, at that) in search of a
to be part of, and
is a serious, achingly beautiful
with a lot to say about their personal situations -- even
a lighthearted song sung by
about answering a personal advertisement, offered several catchy hooks and beautiful backup singing.
ended the original album on a hauntingly ethereal note, but not as any kind of larger statement about the quartet's fate. The intention was to keep working together, but
' growing involvement with their stage project,
, prevented any further work together by the group beyond three songs,
-- they're all present as bonus tracks on the 2001 remastered edition (in gatefold packaging), along with the orphaned B-side
from the same sessions as
, and only add to the appeal of the original album. ~ Bruce Eder