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In 1985, the tube Everybody Wants to Rule the World installed Tears for Fears at the top of the new wave. Alongside Depeche Mode, The Cure, Simple Minds or Eurythmics, the duo from Bath renewed English pop by mixing harmonies inherited from the Beatles with synthesizers and drum machines drawn from Brian Eno or Kraftwerk. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, who seemed to have ended the Tears for Fears adventure in 2004 with the albumEverbody Loves a Happy Ending, come back, at 60, with a style that maturity has not changed.
The Tipping Point, their new album, combines the rock rhythms of My Demons to the sensitivity of Please Be Happy. The English banish their spleen with poetry. “When I’m wrinkled and wise/I’ll trade all my freedom/To find that look in your eyes”, do they sing in No Small Things, guitar-voice ballad rising to the top of a silky, inspired pop. From their worked melodies emerges an emotional force culminating in the title The Tipping Point“tipping point” between sadness and hope.
Almost biblical accents
Anger in the face of oppression, in Break the Man Where Masterplanthreats once morest democracy… Tears for Fears takes an empathic and committed look at the world. Rivers of Mercy opens with police sirens and an urban rumor, that of the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“Lay me down in the rivers of mercy/Dare I imagine faith and understanding?/Bring the dead back tonight and bathe them in holy light/To wash away the sorrow/And save me from the shadows”, asks this title with almost biblical accents. With the elegiac End Of Night, he reminds us that pop, at its best, can express an ardent spiritual longing.
Mother 3: more than 15 years after its launch in Japan on GBA, its producer still hopes for a worldwide release – Nintendo
Following the Nintendo Direct (of which you can find all the details HERE) the rumor has come true and the series Mother (EarthBound in Europe) has made a successful comeback to Nintendo Switch with the release of EarthBound Beginning (Mother) and EarthBound (Mother 2) on apps NES and super nintendo from Nintendo Switch Online (see details HERE.) If this is good news in itself, fans of the series would have preferred an announcement regarding the third installment in the series Mother 3. It must be said that unlike the other two, Mother 3 never had the honors of a release outside of Japan, despite fan requests and the fact that its hero, Lucas has been known to everyone ever since. Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Whereas the game recently celebrated its 15 yearsits producer Shinichi Kameoka explained to our colleagues Nintendo Everything that he would love to see the game localized in English, and released in the United States and Europe. He still continued to hope that this was the case… So Nintendo can he locate his game so long following? let’s remember that EarthBound Beginning only arrived in Europe qu’en 2015 via the Virtual Console of the Wii U. same for me EarthBound who was not entitled to an English localization only in 2013 (on Wii U) and in 2016 (on New 3DS.) So there is hope. Otherwise, there are fan translations that Nintendo cannot ignore... So will it end up being officially released in the West? Maybe if one day GBA games land on the Nintendo Switch Online, Nintendo will give us this little gift?
In the meantime, don’t hesitate to (re)discover EarthBound Beginning and EarthBound and tell us what you think in the comments.