CD Review - Peter Gabriel, New Blood (EMI/Real World)
MOVING inexorably forward, while seeming to turn backwards, Peter Gabriel re-works some of his finest songs with full orchestra and conjures his most viscerally powerful album since, sorry Peter, Genesis’s Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
The two failures here, Solsbury Hill and Don’t Give Up, are among the best of his solo work and therefore impervious to improvement even by an arranger as wily as John Metcalfe.
But The Rhythm Of The Heat, Red Rain and San Jacinto are simply magnificent, taking on a degree of weight, tone and colour only hinted at by the original versions.
Verdict: 4/5