![]() Steven Lindsay's voice is beautiful, but he is competing with too much atmosphere. The problem is that the Big Dish didn't have as distinctive a frontman as either of those bands, one who could impose a personality through the strings, horns, and echoing drums. Producer Bruce Lampcov had previously worked with Simple Minds and Lloyd Cole, and he had the pop formula down pat. There are in fact some good, catchy, intelligent songs here, but they're buried under several layers of studio gloss. That, in fact, is the problem with Creeping up on Jesus, the band's second album. It's easy to see why Warner Brothers had such high hopes for the Big Dish - practically every track sounds like it was made with the hit-singles chart in mind.
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