Savage Garden by Savage Garden (CD, Apr-1997, Columbia (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	074646795422
Artist:	Savage Garden
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1997
Record Label:	Columbia (USA)
Genre:	Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. To the Moon & Back
2. I Want You
3. Truly Madly Deeply
4. Tears of Pearls
5. Universe
6. Carry on Dancing
7. Violet
8. Break Me Shake Me
9. Thousand Words, A
10. Promises
11. Santa Monica

Details
Producer:	Savage Garden, Charles Fisher
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Savage Garden: Daniel Jones (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Darren Hayes (vocals).Additional personnel: Rex Goh (guitar); Alex Hewitson (bass); Terapai Richmond (drums, percussion).Personnel: Daniel Jones (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Darren Hayes (vocals, background vocals); Rex Goh (guitar); Charles Fisher (viola); Jackie Orzaczky (Fender Rhodes piano); Terpain Richmond (drums, percussion).Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Mike Pela.Illustrator: Hieronymus Bosch.Photographer: Yelena Yemchuk.Big, expansive Euro-pop, Australian style. Stylistically, this duo is coming straight out of the '80s with a vengeance. Savage Garden look to Duran Duran and Big Country for influences. Guitars are used for texture, not as instruments of angst or anger. But the Prince-style strings and piano at the end of "To the Moon and Back" show a willingness to experiment within the somewhat narrow confines of their chosen sound.The feel is electronic, but not inhuman. "I Want You" sounds a lot like Roxette (remember Roxette?!!), with its rapid-fire, hip-hoppy vocal affectations, but then "Truly Madly Deeply" comes along, a ballad replete with open-chord guitar sweeps and gospel-inflected keyboards. There's even a nice classical guitar solo at at the end to round things out. If you like modern dance music, but with a semblance of melody and some pleasant instrumental concepts, you just might want to enter this conventionally pretty, not-so-savage garden.