įirstly, as everybody knows, this album has been in the can for over two years as the band sought a distribution deal for their work. And now I'm about to attempt an objective, constructive and impartial review of the first ACR album in 12 years. I've followed them to gigs all over the UK & Europe, bought all the releases on day one, I've even converted trendy art students & public school girls in stock broker Surrey to the band after dragging them along to gigs. He'd heard how good it was from his mate's brother and was about to blow a week's lunch/cig money on it! Since that day, I've been an ACR fan. A nervous 15 yr old, still in his Grammar School uniform, hands the empty 12" sleeve of FACUS4 to the trendy shop assistant behind the counter of PJ Swales Records (remember him?) in Altrincham town centre, "Please can I hear a bit of this?" At £3.79, this "American import" was expensive - but he wants to hear it. A Certain Ratio released their last album? - yes, and nobody took any notice. What else happened in that year? The Tories were still in No.10? - yes. Disco music was just dance music - as disposable as it had been since Keith Farley first laid down his first beats in the mid-eighties. Oasis and Blur & a hundred other soundalikes) blared from our radios, stereos and TVs. Men started getting their haircut again! The sing-a-long brit pop sounds of The Beatles and The Kinks (a.k.a.
The short lived grunge sound was gone - people realised it was just punk on heroin. The Mp3 hadn't been realised, music retailers were still profitable, crowds flocked to music stores seeking out the latest sounds, most of which were just re-hashed sounds from the previous decade. were on the verge of bankruptcy as their early graphics based systems failed to take the world by storm.
1996 was a long time ago! Microsoft hadn't yet released a commercial operating system for the home PC, in fact the home PC didn't really exist.
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