Lament

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Ultravox were in a gray mood as they launched into their seventh studio album, LAMENT. With the band's previous existential angst now pooling around personal anguish, the album's title track was a study in languorous melancholy, where emotional pain lingers on and on. Even "One Small Day," the most celebratory song on the set, battles depression but dismally loses the war. No wonder Ultravox were so keen to escape into the past, with "Man of Two Worlds" taking them back to the gloriously romanticized days of the Celts. The modern world, in contrast, was filled with terrors, both emotional ("A Friend I Call Desire") and geopolitical ("White China" and "Heart of the Country"). The mini-epic "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" points to the richness of life the world's leaders hold so carelessly in their hands. This was to be Ultravox's final album and in many ways the set was a perfect epitaph--as lavish musically as it was desolating thematically.