Artist: Savage Garden Release Date: 1997 Format: CD Record Label: Columbia (USA) Genre: Rock UPC: 074646795422 Sub-Genre: Pop Track listing 1. To the Moon Back 2. I Want You 3. Truly Madly Deeply 4. Tears of Pearls 5. Universe 6. Carry on Dancing 7. Violet 8. Break Me Shake Me 9. Thousand Words, A 10. Promises 11. Santa Monica Details Producer: Charles Fisher, Savage Garden Distributor: Sony Music Distribution ( Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album notes Savage Garden: Daniel Jones (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Darren Hayes (vocals). Additional personnel: Rex Goh (guitar); Alex Hewitson (bass); Terapai Richmond (drums, percussion). Big, expansive Euro-pop, Australian style. Stylistically, this duo is coming straight out of the '80s with a vengeance. Savage Garden look to Duran Duran and Big Country for influences. Guitars are used for texture, not as instruments of angst or anger. But the Prince-style strings and piano at the end of "To the Moon and Back" show a willingness to experiment within the somewhat narrow confines of their chosen sound. The feel is electronic, but not inhuman. "I Want You" sounds a lot like Roxette (remember Roxette?!!), with its rapid-fire, hip-hoppy vocal affectations, but then "Truly Madly Deeply" comes along, a ballad replete with open-chord guitar sweeps and gospel-inflected keyboards. There's even a nice classical guitar solo at at the end to round things out. If you like modern dance music, but with a semblance of melody and some pleasant instrumental concepts, you just might want to enter this conventionally pretty, not-so-savage garden. Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2008 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.