Tag: Mike + The Mechanics

Mike + The Mechanics – Silent Running – The Master Collection (2018)
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 828 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG | EU | Cat#: BMGCAT281DCD | Genre: Pop Rock

2CD set. Career-spanning, 28-track “best of” compilation features “The Living Years”, “All I Need Is A Miracle”, “Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)”, “Over My Shoulder”, “Nobody Knows” and more. Continue reading “Mike + The Mechanics – Silent Running – The Master Collection (2018)”

Mike + The Mechanics – Let Me Fly (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Basic Scans Included
Total Size: 365 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG | UK | Cat#: 538268632 | Genre: Pop Rock

Let Me Fly is the second album from the latter-day incarnation of Mike + the Mechanics, the one featuring Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar splitting lead vocal duties. By this point, any of Mike Rutherford’s lingering prog influences are long gone, leaving a streamlined and polished professional pop group. Even when the pace quickens and the arrangements sparkle, the affair seems subdued and, to that end, Roachford never quite gets the chance to stretch his chops. Then again, virtuosity isn’t the name of the game here: this is gleaming mature pop, music for well-tailored moods and, to that end, it succeeds. Continue reading “Mike + The Mechanics – Let Me Fly (2017)”