Wet Wet Wet: 10 - 1997

I must admit I quite enjoyed my Wet Wet Wet albums between the late eighties and this one, in 1997. I have no embarrassment about admitting that. This was the last one that I bought, though. 

Not that this was a bad album, but it was not really offering too much different than any of the previous albums had. Wet Wet Wet had become the go-to band for cod-funk, cod-soul with tinges of cod-country. The production was now super slick, effortless and, because it was so good, the music was losing any edge it may have had. It was all getting a bit too easy. This was probably the group's most easy listening album thus far, too. 

Their previous albums had their share of uptempo numbers, but they are pretty much non-existent on here. It used to be that their albums often faded out in their second halves with slow-paced ballads. This album is comprised totally of them. 

In fact, this would be the group's final album until they released a reunion one in 2007. It had been ten great years for them, but it was all starting to sound a bit the same so the split probably came at the right time, even though this was a fine-sounding, professional album.