RELEASED: OUT NOW
GENRE: Rock, Pop
FORMAT: LP, Vinyl Album
CAT No: 3794995
RELEASED BY: UMC
This is the most exhaustive reissue of Songs from The Big Chair. If The Hurting was mental anguish, Songs from the Big Chair marks the progression towards emotional healing, a particularly bold sort of catharsis culled from Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's shared attraction to primal scream therapy. The album also heralded a dramatic maturation in the band's music, away from the synth-pop brand with which it was (unjustly) seared following the debut, and towards a complex, enveloping pop sophistication.