In many respects Automatic For The People sounds increasingly like Michael's album. He never really sounded quite so upfront, centre stage and utterly assured within himself before or probably since. There's a moment in the final song on the record, Find The River, that I still find unbearably moving. It comes one minute and forty seconds into the song when he opens his throat fully and sings 'I have got to find the river...' and just nails it perfectly.
This is the endpoint to a record where the band explore most fully the basic state of being alive and the place where we are all inevitably bound. It's a very simple song in terms of its structure, always reminiscent to me of Nick Drake. It's a case of less is more.
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