Level 42

In their desperation to be heard, the members of England's Level 42 have fashioned an
album that pretends to be more important than it is. World Machine, the group's seventh LP
since it formed in 1980, aspires to the lofty perch occupied by Sting's Dream of the Blue
Turtles or even Tears for Fears' Songs from the Big Chair, but it doesn't pass the
social-awareness test. In light of recent events in the Philippines and Haiti, lyrics... More >