Comments for Eurythmics, In The Garden

First in a line of wonderful albums from Annie Lennonx & Dave Stewart. Not the easiest to find.

This is Eurythmics' first album, released after the break-up of the Tourists left Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox dogged by debt and despair but determined to develop the idea they had hit on. As Stewart expressed it, "There will be a nucleus of Annie and me around which we'll work with a variety of different musicians, subject to availability and compatibility." A "moody" video was produced for "Never Gonna Cry Again" but never aired or released. Lennox said of the album "there's a lot of beauty in the sound, but with a touch of something that's a bit disturbing, a bit sinister." Regarding "English Summer" Stewart adds that "it's like on an afternoon when it goes a bit grey outside, it could be in London or Scunthorpe or wherever you are, and you look out of the window and the light changes -- it's quite sunny and suddenly everything goes grey and seems a bit dead...we were trying to capture *that*." =mw=

German multi-innovator & all-round sound wizard Holger Czukay adds his trademark french horn to some of the tracks. These first couple of Eurythmics albums were their best.

a brilliant album.... did it ever get better than <> and dave never looked better or more pneumatic.

It's completely different to any of their others - distracted, slightly unworldly, hazily beautiful. Annie Lennox sounds in a trance on most of the tracks - hushed and distant. It's a real mood piece. Some of it doesn't sound out of place beside early Cure or Comsat Angels. And 'Never gonna cry again' is a sadly forgotten gem, off-kilter, melancholic, soothing.