Saturday, May 22, 2010

Advice for the Young at Heart



New-wave mainstays Tears for Fears made a rather dramatic turnaround in their artistic sensibilities in 1989, with the release of their third studio work, the much-celebrated 'Sowing the Seeds of Love'. Instead of the hermetic, synth-heavy approach that constituted Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's stock in trade in the preceding years, the duo decided to adopt a more open-ended, organic aesthetic that instantly reaped both critical and commercial acclaim for them. Check out one of the more exemplary tracks that successfully embodied this new methodology, the streamlined Philly-soul concoction 'Advice for the Young at Heart', whose video is set Miami's Little Havana, detailing the apparently prosaic but unconditionally meaningful events at a Cuban American newlywed couple's wedding ceremony.