When Tears For Fears returned after a long absence with 2022’s The Tipping Point, they reiterated their ability to go big without going over the top. The album revelled in massive production, epic songs and copious emoting, yet pulled off the duo’s time-honoured trick of making music with colossal ambition easily digestible. Pop music, but in its highest form.
Now re-energised – despite an increase in grey hair – Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith have released a live album with four brand-new tracks. Such mix-and-match projects can feel a bit ungainly, as if the new songs are bolted on just to tempt hesitant voters. Such is the sumptuousness, however, of these four fillips that everything gels gracefully.
