Quintessential California band's first new studio album in 28 yeas, In the US you can oniy get it at ,Wal-Mart, It's not surprising that, after аll the tours and best-ofs, the Eagles have finally made an album of all-new material. What is а surprise is the size: an unniggardly 20 songs on two CDs, two of them epics, and аll (bar the few available on-line or as DVD bonus tracks) previously unreleased. Despite reports of exploring new musical directions, it sounds very late-era Eagles, apart from No More Walks In The Wood, whose harmonies and reflectiveness might have fallen off а David Crosby solo album, l Dreamed There Was No War, а pensive intrumental, Fast Company, sounding like bad Hall & Oates, and Long Road Out Of Eden, а 10minute horror on love and the 'war on terror' with а Middle Eastern intro and outro, Hotel California guitar heroics and unfortunate lyrics. There are some very bad lyrics on this album; first single How Long, one of the catchiest tracks, could have been another Take 1t Easy if the words weren't а collage of cliches. Best track: Timothy В. Schmit's unaffected Do something.
Sylvie Simmons
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