Friday, July 7th, 2006

The Times (London) reviews the Who's new mini-opera EP Wire and Glass: "It's all faintly preposterous. But there's something great about it too; something noble in Townshend's belligerent insistence that there's nothing the novel, say, can achieve that rock music can't. The only shame is that it's taken him so long to come up with new songs for The Who - despite the best efforts of the session bassist Pino Palladino, you miss the rococo rumble of Entwistle, who died in 2002. And while Townshend's playing is incendiary, 62-year-old Roger Daltrey's voice has inevitably lost some of its range and power. Beggars can't be choosers, though, and whatever the limitations of Wire & Glass, it's still way better than anyone had a right to expect."