The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon takes the more sober route on this outing, leaving behind some of the flowery, clever elements of his past recordings. The result is grand chamber pop with an epic scope that rivals big leaguers like Radiohead and Coldplay, but with a whip-smart crooner at the helm.

Neil Hannon, a.k.a. the Divine Comedy, has been the U.K.'s leading musical ironist for some
years now - a worthy successor to the arch tradition of the Kinks, Pet Shop Boys and Noël
Coward. And so, inevitably, he'll never be as successful in the States as in the land of
clouds and fried Mars bars. But Regeneration, the Divine Comedy's sixth album, could find
fans on either side of the Atlantic, as it's their first to pay as much attention to th... More >