Communique
Difficult second date
So Sultans of Swing x 7 is it then? Well, not quite. As the opening track Once Upon a Time in the West (Knof goes reaggae!) suggests, the scale and ambition of the band has gone up a notch. By track two (the intimate News) we've already hit the midnight bar shuffle that the first album touched upon, except this time it's even slower! But it works in it's own way, and as Knopfler slips out the sultry you-can-keep-your-hat-on Communique you're beginning to get a picture of a suave troubadour, slowly making his moves. Perhaps this is the album then to slip on when you and that special person get back to your penthouse apartment and switch on the jacuzzi? well, no. Not unless you want them to go to become comatose. Becasue from Lady Writer (a lame facsimile of Sultans of Swing) things go downhill, fast. Prematurely rushed out after the sucess of the first album, it feels like the Knof ran out of material here.
Reviewed by Joe, 21 September 2009.
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