Album review: Voyager "Fearless In Love"
[ UPDATE, 21 Sep 2023: the last 2 paragraphs don't really make much sense now that Voyager have (understandably) postponed their Autumn tour of Europe on account of Danny's urgent medical situation . I'm off to listen to Promise again whilst crossing my fingers extra hard for him. ]* Voyager's 8th studio album, Fearless In Love , has been out for 2 months now, and I feel like I've got familiar enough with it to give a review a go. I'll try not to bore, neither by gushing uncritically like the newbie Voyager superfan I've become, nor by repeating too much that's been said already in the many other excellent reviews of this album. To summarise upfront: it's good, great even. It continues in the broad style of Voyager's previous two studio albums ( Ghost Mile & Colours In The Sun ). Its main selling point, just like its predecessors, is the emphasis on contrasts, mainly between the clean synths & vocals and the distorted guitar sounds (the ...