A Secret Wish

Rating

Album: A Secret Wish
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Dream Within a Dream
2)	Murder of Love, The
3)	Jewel
4)	Duel
5)	Frozen Faces
6)	p:Machinery
7)	Sorry for Laughing
8)	Dr. Mabuse
9)	Chase, The
10)	Strength to Dream

Album: A Secret Wish

Song Title

Time

Dream Within a Dream

Murder of Love, The

Jewel

Duel

Frozen Faces

p:Machinery

Sorry for Laughing

Dr. Mabuse

Chase, The

10)

Strength to Dream

Performer Notes

Propaganda: Michael Mertens, Suzanne Freytag, Claudia Bruken, Ralf Dorper.
Personnel: David Sylvian, Glenn Gregory, Jonathan Sorrell, Andrew Richards, Steve Howe, Stephen Lipson, Trevor Horn, Ian Mosley (vocals).
Audio Mixer: Stephen Lipson.
Photographer: Anton Corbijn.
With guests including David Sylvian, Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory, and Steve Howe, A Secret Wish is synth-rock with an eye toward orchestrated pop as well as a bit of sampler experimentation in the grand ZTT tradition of Art of Noise. There's a distinct lack of songwriting on the album, and though the synth-grooves are tight enough to keep it flowing for most of its length, A Secret Wish occasionally falls flat from its own weight. ~ Keith Farley

Professional Reviews

Uncut (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The music's richness and the vocals' frostiness still captivate."

Uncut (3/04, p.108) - 5 stars out of 5 - "A SECRET WISH was New Pop's swan song....[With] monumental symphonic arrangements..."

Record Collector (magazine) (p.90) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s totally contemporary yet completely futuristic as it ever was, it's also an evolving, changing artefact..."