Hothouse Flowers

There is something desperately Messianic about Hothouse Flowers' third album, Songs From
the Rain, as if the Irish rockers were straining to reach the same heavenly plain crossed by
such holy men as Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. The album is so spiritually correct it
squeaks. Thunderous with cheery sermonizing – like a Gaelic chapter of Up With People –
Rain ensnares Hothouse Flowers in a muddle. Using every foot-stomping device t... More >