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Album reviews with Mik Sabiers: April 19, 2022
New releases from Tears For Fears, Blood Red Shoes, and The Mysterines

Tears For Fears
The Tipping Point
(Concord)
★★★★

SYNTH pop rock stalwarts Tears for Fears’ seventh studio album has been a long time coming — 18 years to be precise — and it is a welcome return. 

Songs range from heartbreak — title track The Tipping Point is about the death of joint singer/guitarist and chief songwriter Roland Orzabal’s first wife — to smashing the patriarchy; Break The Man is about a woman taking control and making the world a better place.

Blood Red Shoes
Ghosts on Tape
(Veleten Records/Jazz Life)
★★★


The Mysterines
Reeling
(Fiction)
★★★★

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