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With its chiming, angular guitar riffs, opener "Anyone"**** fits squarely in the U2-inspired emo mainstream, as do "It's A LIe", "Cold Water Symmetry", and "Cross The Line", while others such as "Two Sisters" and "Death Machine" use funky, scratchy guitar riffs. So it turns out that most of the album is divided between by songs inspired by U2 and songs inspired by his pop's (Sting's) band. Lyrically, "Death Machine" and "Running The Country" tell us that the younger Sumner hates George W Bush, and otherwise it's typical young man stuff, girls, partying, and self-analysis. The title track ups the U2 ante by belting out a chorus of nicely harmonized oh-oh-oh's into the abyss in an ultimate attempt at aural landscape painting, and the mysterious closer "Fake Light Of The Sun" obliquely references Radiohead, which is at least a bit more interesting than copying U2.
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