Tears For Fears - The Hurting • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

Britain's Tears for Fears stand out among the current crop of identikit synth-pop groups by virtue of their resourceful, stylish songwriting and fetching rhythmic sway. Granted, the adolescent angst and bleak, pained romanticism of singer-instrumentalists Curt Smith and Roland Orzabel sometimes come off as an adequate imitation of Joy Division, at best. But for every lapse into sackcloth-and-ashes anguish on The Hurting, the duo's debut album, there is a heady, danceable pop tune like "Change." On that track, a breathless core riff and nervous percussion accelerate the song's strong disco pulse. And on both "Mad World" and "Pale Shelter," beguiling hooks and panoramic guitar
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