IN A POEM UNLIMITED CD housed in full-color If the riffs don't always

If the riffs don't always sink in deeply -- and if the entire production feels slightly monochromatic -- what impresses here is the thought and musicality within the compositions and the performances

Personnel: Robert Smith (vocals

take-no-prisoners danger anthem "Search and Destroy

Recorded at The Complex Studios

Smashing the sophomore jinx

IN A POEM UNLIMITED CD housed in full-color If the riffs don't alwaysMeg Remys second release for 4AD, which also includes her recently released single, M. A. H. a clarion call for pacifism was tracked in collaboration with Toronto based instrumental collective the Cosmic Range, and features arrangements by long time contributors Maxmilian Turnbull and Louis Percival. The dizzying buffet of live grooves on In a Poem Unlimited represents an inversion of the dusty, sample based minimal textures of Half Free, Remys