It's hard to know who to blame for this. Presumably Tears For Fears had a financial shot in the arm from Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, whose melancholy version of their frenetic tin-can-clanking single Mad World closed the movie Donnie Darko and clinched the Christmas number one spot in the UK. Additionally, back catalogue sales must have increased due to the patronage of Nathan Barley-esque anarchic bootleg DJs who took tracks such as the anthemic Shout and spliced them with a number of others to make reasonably interesting new music. Anyway, between the lot of them, they've enabled the Bath two-piece to head back to the studio and record this, which at first listen appears to be an ELO tribute album, although perhaps one written by people who have only previously heard ELO in the form of polyphonic ringtones, and which upon repeated encounters is apparent as the kind of thing which even one's grandparents might struggle to describe as "fun". It's telling that the one nod towards the kind of avant-garde production values that they used to hold so dear, Size Of Sorrow, sounds like a rendition of Ultravox's Vienna with added guitar. A tremendously derivative record - and when you're being derivative and still end up sounding like Paul McCartney did in the 1980s, you know that something's wrong.