Yeah, kind of reminds me of my reaction to Prefab Sprout’s Andromeda Heights. I really, really tried to like it (particularly because I paid an insanely high import price for it), but in the end I couldn’t help but think, “Seven years of waiting for this?!?!!” I wonder if my positive reaction to The Gunman and Other Stories has more to do with the fact that I paid $5 for it than the fact that it’s appreciably better.
Scratch that, it is better. Hard to believe someone with such a high standard of perfection as Paddy McAloon could let something as lame as Andromeda Heights escape.
As for Kate, my expectations were lowered after the lameness (IMO) that was The Sensual World. I was so let down by it that I never bothered with The Red Shoes (which is, by most accounts, supposed to be even worse).
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Scratch that, it is better. Hard to believe someone with such a high standard of perfection as Paddy McAloon could let something as lame as Andromeda Heights escape.
As for Kate, my expectations were lowered after the lameness (IMO) that was The Sensual World. I was so let down by it that I never bothered with The Red Shoes (which is, by most accounts, supposed to be even worse).