The journey

"Amazingly, 14 years since their last studio album, the clock has been turned back and Big Country have produced an album on a par with some of their earlier work, probably surpassing 1988's Peace In Our Time. Purists will bemoan the absence of Adamson, but Peters proves to be an able alternative. Bands can lose a drummer, a bassist or a guitarist without much perceived impact, but when the lead singer changes the identity can often be lost entirely".

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"Fourteen years after their last album -- and 12 years after the death of their lead singer/songwriter Stuart Adamson -- Big Country reunited to record The Journey ... It's not fun but it's not meant to be: it's a bunch of lifers in their middle age reconnecting with the things they found important back then. If that only appeals to the diehards, well, there's a reason for that: they're the only other ones who will find this surging alt-arena rock as vital, as necessary as the bandmembers themselves".

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