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This Delicate Thing We've Made (2 CDS)
Ex-Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes stretches his legs a bit on his third solo release, adding a bit of bombast to the radio-friendly boogie. With song titles like "How to Build a Time Machine" and "Waking the Monster" (about a mad professor building a creature with a "phonographic needle and a stereo heart"), it seems Hayes is reaching for more than a simple pop album, and the double-CD length belies the need to say more than you can squeeze into a three-minute radio single. The result is practically a dance-pop concept album, sprawling without quite being epic, occasionally straying into conversational, train-of-thought lyrics that vaguely recall an R. Kelly "Closet" episode. While the single, "On the Verge of Something Wonderful," delivers a catchy chorus over tightly packed production, This Delicate Thing We've Made lacks the kind of monster jams that elevate an album like Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds out of the dance-pop pack and into the stratosphere. Still, Darren Hayes delivers enough variety and soulfulness to keep the listener hanging on through 25 tracks to see what happens next--in the era of 10-second ringtones and downloadable singles, that's no small feat.--Ben Heege
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Tracks| 1 | Fear of Falling Under | | 2 | Who Would Have Thought | | 3 | Waking the Monster | | 4 | How to Build a Time Machine | | 5 | Casey | | 6 | Step into the Light | | 7 | Sing to Me | | 8 | Conversation with God | | 9 | Sun Is Always Blinding Me | | 10 | Listen All You People | | 11 | Only One | | 12 | Bombs Up in My Face | | 13 | Great Big Disconnect | | 14 | Future Holds a Lion's Heart | | 15 | On the Verge of Something Wonderful | | 16 | Neverland | | 17 | Walk Away | | 18 | Maybe | | 19 | Me, Myself And (I) | | 20 | Lucky Town | | 21 | I Just Want You to Love Me | | 22 | Setting Sun | | 23 | Hundred Challenging Things a Boy Can Do | | 24 | Words | | 25 | Tuning of Violins |
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