Mercury

"As Eighties-influenced albums go, Mercury is smart, and too intricate to be written off as pure nostalgia exercise. Moore and O'Sullivan's songs are soaked in gloom, charged with angst and full of more religious lyricism than vintage Depeche Mode: `Falling Into the Night' features descending Jan Hammer-like keyboards and O'Sullivan shrieking about walking through fire, while `Breathless' could inspire a plausible Lost Boys sequel with its dark, hazy synths, drums like steam and declarations like "Killed me once today/And I felt alive"".

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"While it's easy enough to imagine how wonderful an LP made up entirely of these yawning ambient tracks would be, that's not entirely fair to Moore and O'Sullivan. Mercury feels like an addition to the canon of 80s synth pop albums rather than an attempt to xerox them, mainly because of its sincerity-there's no sly winking or irony here, period".

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