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It's pleasant, even comforting, which makes Forth as pure a sequel as possible: it's an album that offers more of the same many years too late, which will be enough for the legions of faithful who have waited to hear all the old characters back together again, yet seems a little pointless for those who no longer remain quite so invested in the band.
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For the first four tracks, The Verve dig deep into their chaotic history to conjure the strange, intoxicating mix of stridency, shimmering beauty, pretension and vulnerability that made them so distinctive back in their pomp. And then the plot is suddenly lost, along with the tunes.
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Just how often you'll revisit Forth after the initial flush of interest is debatable, because it hasn't really moved things anywhere for them.
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Men out of time, The Verve were a neo-psychedelic jam-rock outfit who got fortuitously swept up in the Britpop boom and stumbled upon a timely form of Big Music.
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MojoForth is a good, but not great Verve album, then, its glimmers of brillance all too brief. [Sep 2008, p.98]
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Admittedly, the band's past catalogue sets the bar high, but Forth is an achievement, especially when considered in the context of so many failed attempts by others to return after a period of inactivity.
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Their second reunion carries the listener a good third of the way into this punningly titled fourth album. Trouble is, the second two-thirds are a very long slog indeed.
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In 1997, this kind of thing--crisp, echoing guitars, provincial strings, existential moodiness--actually sounded kind of exciting. Just over a decade later, though, the exact same recipe, prepared exactly the same way, conjures up new dominant aftertastes: false profundity, compositional laziness, and outsized egos.
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The tracks on Forth are long and often overproduced. It’s a tough blow to handle when a band you’ve loved for so long comes up so short.
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Just as Forth shares the strengths of those early albums, it proves that the Verve are yet to grow out of their shortcomings.
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Under The RadarForth is the sound of a band shaking off ten years worth of rust. [Fall 2008, p.85]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 54
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Mixed: 7 out of 54
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Negative: 5 out of 54
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