I have always loved the rock/Irish folk/acoustic balladeering/sometimes even slight progressive music mix of this band. This, Out Of All This Blue proves once again how proficient with a melody, how tight with a tune, and how overall greatly unique The Waterboys still are.

Where the Waterboys were at one time an Irish/Scottish folk/rock band, producing albums like the elegant This Is The Sea and Fisherman’s Blues, Mike Scott, the band’s leader, singer, songwriter, guitarist-although we can’t forget the instrumental genius of this band for just about ever, Steve Wickham, and Ralph Salmins on drums, and Paul Brown, keyboards, backing vocals-takes his band through nearly 30 tunes here of funk, disco and pop. Lyrically we are getting lots about love, Scott having recently married and having just had a child; so the man is happy, here it is.