Described as “a luminous collection of scenes and reckonings”, Love, the 7th and possibly final album from Dexys Midnight Runners if Kevin Rowland is to be believed, continues to display the regained spirit Rowland has shown since 2012’s One Day I’m Going to Soar. If 2023’s The Feminine Divine was all about sex (and without doubt Rowland’s autobiography Bless Me Father was full of it); Love is, well, unsurprisingly, about love.
The Feminine Divine was raw and redemptive, and Love is largely a smiling coda. Broadly working with largely the same set up as the last album, with Sean Read and Mike Timothy (Jim Paterson has three co-writes, also), Love reveals itself gradually. Horns and strings are used sympathetically and sparingly; the attack…

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