#295 Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights

Finally off all this modern stuff and back to looking into the alleged classics. Liked their other one pretty good, checking out this one too.

This album was released around the time that Richard and Linda separated, and whether the beginnings of their breakup were present during these recordings, or just post-hoc, hindsight pattern-finding, you can feel regret and sadness and tension here, especially on the first two songs.

But for whatever reason the 8 years separating these albums watered their sound down, with only Walking on a Wire really bringing the fire. Back Street Slide is emblematic of the problem, sounding derivative and limp, like a midi version of itself. The rest just generally sounds a bit..80's, a bit too aimlessly bouncy, a bit too gated snare Born in the USA beat, a bit too repetitive. Didn't, as a whole, move me 2/5