2012 studio album in the reunited '80s quartet featuring the band's classic hit-making line-up: Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann. Recorded in Canada, Los Angeles and the UK, Brilliant sees Ultravox expanding their classic sonic template and reminding us with their strength as songwriters in the highest caliber. Dramatic, passionate and truly epic in scale and sound, Brilliant is not just a prescient reminder of how great this reborn band are, but an exilerating and vital addition for an extraordinary catalog of music which today sounds more current and influential than previously. EMI.

Brilliant is a lot better than I thought it will be. Songs like Lie and Satellite are as good as their best work, with all the current classic Ultravox elements present and correct, so that it is mystifying that they should be hidden away near the end of the album. Mind you, the very first three songs will also be good, with Midge employing a sort of whispery vocal around the title track take a different slant. The synth sounds can also be a good mix with the familiar plus more up to date sounds that produce this a distinctly modern-day Ultravox. You know instantly who it really is but songs like Rise ensure it is more than just a rehash of past glories. Overall, I think this is a better album than Lament, or any situation that followed it, and is also right on the websites for with Rage in Eden and Vienna (Quartet is my favourite Ure-era album). With a harder edge it might have been as effective as either but songs like Change and Remembering are pretty soft along with the production might be a too slick for my taste. It helps to show it up but the guitars are mixed excessively far back.

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