When Tears For Fears returned with 2022’s The Tipping Point, it’s not like it came out of the blue. This comeback represented the culmination of an increasingly triumphant, and lengthy reunion. Largely absent from the charts though they may have been – their last UK Top 10 single had been 1989’s Sowing The Seeds Of Love – they had nonetheless kept themselves active. From 2010 they’d undertaken multiple tours covering much of the world, and in 2014 there’d been a covers EP, Ready Boy & Girls?, a self-proclaimed warm-up exercise for the ultimately prolonged making of their next album. Deluxe editions of their first three long-players, as well as a B-sides compilation, had also helped raise their profile, while in 2021 they received an Ivor Novello Award for their ‘Outstanding Song Collection’.