| Catherine Wheel - Ferment | Label: Mercury Records Release: 1992 Tracklisting: 1. Texture 2. I Want To Touch You 3. Black Metallic 4. Indigo Is Blue 5. She's My Friend 6. Shallow 7. Ferment 8. Flower To Hide 9. Tumbledown 10. Bill And Ben 11. Salt 12. Balloon |  (View Larger Image) 
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| CD Review by Depechekin (View Other Reviews by This Person) | |
| Long and boring songs make this, Catherine Wheel's debut also their worst album. Although this can be forgiven because if you listen to next 2 or 3 albums they put out, they obviously got it right. Ferment Resonates British Pop gone horribly wrong, or at least horribly boring. This album has a few diamonds in the Rough though, "Black Metallic", "Bill and Ben" and "Balloon" are all good songs, although "Balloon" has an opening riff that sounds very similar to the opening riff of Smashing Pumpkins' "Rocket", maybe that's why I like it so much. Perhaps the songs wouldn't have suffered so much with better production, who knows. In any event, this is a dull album, buy it and you might get one or 2 enjoyable listens out of it but afterwards it will just sit around forever.
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