Track Listing

1. They All Run After The Carving Knife 5.51
2. Areas 4.09
3. Churches 4.52
4. This World Of Walter 2.55
5. Luxury 3.47
6. While You Wait 5.05
7. Changing Minds 4.51
8. Peace 5.12
9. Design 3.43
10. Traps 4.02
11. Division 4.19
12. Back To Room One 4.15
13. The Office 4.28
14. While You Wait (12" Version) 5.58
15. From The Village 3.56
16. Guitars 3.30

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87166 in Music
• Released on: 2001-12-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Import
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
Japanese jewel-cased version featuring an exclusive track (While You Wait - 12" Version) to the European versions.

Customer Reviews

'Excellent, If Less Commercial, Second Album'
New Musik had a difficult task on their hands back in 1981. Such a synth pop classic (to their fans- the band had not quite managed to break the general public as a whole) was 'From A To B' their first album, expectations second time around would be very high. So. what did Tony Mansfield and the boys do? Release a much more 'adult, arty and sophisticated' set is the answer and I'm glad to say that it was a great move. 'Anywhere' is almost as great an album as 'From A To B' but in a much different sense. Gone here are the pop edge of 'Sanctuary' and 'Living By Numbers' to be replaced by a kind of understated, metronomic and deceptively catchy style, perfectly illustrated by the first single from the album 'Luxury'. I recall at the time how the single got an awful lot of radio 1 play yet failed to chart. Alternately, as if that failure had sealed the band's fate with the media, second single 'While You Wait' received virtually no airplay despite being more 'pop' than it's predecessor...

Other great tracks on this album are 'Areas' (a great atmospheric and percussive slow song), 'Churches' (complete with great use of the vocoder) and the metronomically bashing but bright and breezy 'Changing Minds'. But they are all good. Some of the extra tracks are a bit of a surprise however as neither 'Under Attack' nor 'And' (both songs were extra tracks on the cassette version of the original album) are featured. Instead we get both singlesvarious b sides and the 12" version of 'While You Wait'. Of the b sides,'From The Village' is especially strong and so this is a worthwhile purchase even if you do have the original vinyl. If you are looking for 'Under Attack' and 'And', they are featured as extra tracks on the Japanese version of 'From A To B' bizarrely. Tony Mansfield is a genius!