Release Date: 11/09/2004
Recording Date: 11/2004
Tracks: 14
Length: 00:58:11 Hrs
Label: Warner Spain
- Genre/Styles
- Progressive Electronic, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
Album Tracks (14)
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What the Critics Say
It's sad to say, but the days when a new Mike Oldfield album was treated as some kind of industry-wide event are long since past. Of course, part of this has to do with his own preoccupation with the album that started it all, Tubular Bells, which has now been revisited and remixed so often that it demands its own section on the shelves. But it's also safe to say that very little that he has accomplished since at least the early '80s has resonated with anybody beyond the core faithful, and their constitution has shifted greatly in the years since then. Today, Oldfield is just one more in that long line of artists bracketed into the new age bin, and expectations have shifted accordingly. That said, Tres Lunas is certainly deserving of a wider audience, and not only for the presence of vocalist Jude Sim (most notably on the pop standout "To Be Free") and Oldfield's guitar-synth approximation of saxophone on the opening "Misty." The melodies are more focused than on some of Oldfield's other "later" albums, while his occasional over-reliance on mood and texture is replaced by some powerfully emotional playing -- there are moments when his guitars leap out of the speakers with a passion that he once seemed to have forgotten. Yes, there are moments that seem utterly interchangeable -- more than one track, for instance, sounds like it wants to be a remix of "Etude." But overall, Tres Lunas is an album that not only values its place in Oldfield's catalog, it deserves it as well. [This edition was released in Spain.] ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide
