Changing Faces
Studio album by
Bros
Released30 September 1991 (1991-09-30)
GenrePop, dance-pop
Length43:45
LabelCBS
ProducerGary Stevenson
Bros chronology
The Time
(1989)		 Changing Faces
(1991)		 The Best Remixes
(1991)
Singles from Changing Faces
  1. "Are You Mine?"
    Released: 1 July 1991
  2. "Try"
    Released: 9 September 1991

Changing Faces is the third and final studio album by British pop band Bros. It was released on 30 September 1991 and was the first album on which Matt Goss and Luke Goss co-wrote all the songs. It was also the first time that Nicky Graham was not involved in either writing or production duties. The album reached number 18 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned two singles, both of which made the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Calgary HeraldC[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Q[4]

Reviews of the album were largely negative. Jimmy Nichol of Q said that the album tried hard to copy the style of George Michael in an attempt to find success, although "there are some nice ballads". He concluded, however, that Changing Faces "suffers partly from Matt's incessantly misogynistic lyrics ... but mostly from Bros' inability to produce genuinely original material of their own".[4] In Melody Maker the Stud Brothers stated that "Bros have given up their arrogance and thus nothing of what made them a (marginally) diverting phenomenon remains". They said that the album's combination of "fake funk and heinously over-sentimental ballads is so grotesquely lush and sickeningly opulent – swooning saccharin orchestras and chunky session guitar – you wonder at whom it could possibly be aimed".[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Matt and Luke Goss unless indicated.

  1. "Try" – 4:20
  2. "Never Love Again" – 4:39
  3. "Just Another Tear" – 3:57
  4. "Leave Me Alone" (M. Goss, L. Goss, I. Green) – 3:33
  5. "Are You Mine?" (M. Goss, L. Goss, P. Powell) – 5:36
  6. "Changing Faces" – 3:59
  7. "You're My Life" (M. Goss, L. Goss, G. Cole) – 4:13
  8. "Don't Go Loving Me Now" – 3:44
  9. "Shot in the Back" – 4:16
  10. "Break My Silence" – 4:55

Charts

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] 176
European Albums[7] 85
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[8] 78
UK Albums (OCC)[9] 18

References

  1. ↑ "Bros – Changing Faces". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. ↑ Obee, Dave (23 February 1992). "Recent Releases". Calgary Herald.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2011). "Bros". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  4. 1 2 Nichol, Jimmy (September 1991). "Bros – Changing Faces". Q. No. 60. p. 78.
  5. ↑ The Stud Brothers (12 October 1991). "Bros – Changing Faces". Melody Maker. p. 34.
  6. ↑ "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 21 October 1991". Bubbling Down Under. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. 26 October 1991. p. 32 – via World Radio History.
  8. ↑ "Brosのアルバム売上ランキング".
  9. ↑ "Bros | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart.


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