![]() The smooth disco groove of "Safe," with Scissor Sister Ana Matronic, feels like a cousin to the band's '80s classics, while the ballad "Leave a Light On" could be a new-millennium "Save a Prayer. On top of Simon LeBon's still-stylish delivery and John Taylor's distinctive bass groove, they drop Nick Rhodes' synthesizer bursts and a Roger Taylor drum breakdown that sounds like an homage to "Rio." There is a "Hungry Like the Wolf"-era feel to the fantastic "Girl Panic," the catchiest Duran song since "Come Undone" nearly two decades ago. Their songs like Ordinary World, Save A Prayer, Hungry Like the Wolf and others have attained. On "All You Need Is Now" (Skin Traders), the band teams up with producer Mark Ronson, a self-proclaimed Durannie who calls the new album the stylistic follow-up to the band's smash "Rio." Though it doesn't quite live up to that kind of hype, it's certainly far better than "Red Carpet Massacre," the band's misguided collaboration with Timbaland. Founding member of Duran Duran, icon, artist, songwriter. Considering how many bands owe at least part of their career to Duran Duran and their well-crafted combination of new wave, funk and rock, why shouldn't the Durans revisit their own work as well? ![]()
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