Speak of the Devil

explores the same moody terrain as 's previous records, though the songs are fleshed out with more contemporary touches. The leadoff track, is unusually hard-hitting, with its acoustic/electric/soft/crash structure, Mellotron, and soundbite lyrics. is a rave-up (wherein lyrically quotes 's : "In the middle of the night I cry your name"); the title cut is an eerie celebration of love lost and found; is the album's tour de force. Yet, some of the loungy vocal touches in and the final instrumental track, would be right at home on an record. And of course there's plenty of that thing does best: quintessential love's-gone-wrong-'n'-let's-make-it-right songs, as on the loping, -tinged and the teary ~ Denise Sullivan