World Party, Dumbing Up - 60m 15s

Tracks & Durations

1. Another Thousand Years	5:30
2. What Does It Mean Now?	4:59
3. Til I Got You	3:42
4. Who Are You?	5:06
5. Here Comes The Future	4:44
6. I Thought You Were A Spy	3:32
7. High Love	6:50
8. Best Place I've Ever Been	3:26
9. Santa Barbara	4:23
10. You're a Hurricane, I'm a Caravan	4:02
11. See The Light	5:19
12. Always On My Mind	8:34

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Review

After being given only a limited UK release four years ago, Dumbing Up has been expanded and is finally available in the US. 2002 was also the year that Karl Wallinger's longrunning, critically lauded and commercially successful World Party fell apart. With this album out and a return to touring, a new generation can be fully exposed to the resonant powers of Wallinger's songs. The first few bars of the opening "Another Thousand Years" make his love of pop smarts, and specifically The Beatles (with its shades of "Baby You're a Rich Man") readily apparent. Elsewhere, there are evident strains of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and other pillars of well-crafted songs. What makes World Party -- essentially Karl Wallinger -- so compelling is that fact that those influences blend into a singular identity. The references are incorporated into a whole, absorbed, but not hidden. --David Greenberger

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Dumbing Up
Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 2m 58s (+2m 43s)

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