Juke Box Gypsy/Warm Feeling/Woman/Only Alone/Run For Home/Kings Cross Blues/Get Wise/You & Me/Marshall Riley's Army/Angels At Eleven/Make Me Want To Stay
Back & Forth was the comeback album from the folk-rock group Lindisfarne. Unfortunately it is a bit uneven compared with their earlier work, the highlight being the UK No.10 hit single Run For Home. (UK:22)
“Mostly second-rate stuff here. The much awaited comeback album that, in the event, manages to disappoint on practically every front.” “The original line up re-unites but sound much more polished and bland. It cannot be denied that Run For Home is gorgeous but apart from that only Marshall Riley's Army adds to their legacy.”
“The sound has moved on a bit from the early albums, a bit less folk, a bit more rock and with an eye on the pop market.”
“The quality of songwriting is excellent throughout and incredibly consistent. There are no weak tracks or filler to be found here. Standouts for me are Run For Home, second only to Lady Eleanor as their greatest song. Then there is the political Marshal Riley's Army, a story about the Jarrow marchers. There is the great Warm Feeling, a really bouncy and jaunty expression of love and the happiness that being in love brings.”
“This was the band's comeback album after a fairly quiet patch in the mid-'70s. The fact is, Back & Fourth isn't really that good a record, lacking the imagination and spirit of experimentation that highlighted their early albums. However, at its best, it was smoothly commercial.”
“It’s as if they had already managed to capture so much of the Lindisfarne spirit and purpose in Marshall Riley’s Army that there was no need to bother with the rest of this slick over-produced album of pop songs and ballads. Run For Home was truly gorgeous but suggested that the band will be doing more dancing than marching in the years to come, politics taking second place to pop.”
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