CUTTING CREW
RANSOMED HEALED RESTORED FORGIVEN
AUGUST DAY
★★★
Cutting Crew – or what’s left of them, since only Nick Van Eede survives from the original line-up, and guitarist Gareth Moulton didn’t arrive till 2005 – follow 2015’s Add To Favourites by joining the long line of artists bolting on strings to their hits. With only two UK Top 40 tunes to their name, it appears, like many such collections, a little unnecessarily extravagant, while the album’s title, taken from the hymn Praise My Soul, seems like a vain gesture, the words representing what Christ (allegedly) did for us, not what the man behind (I Just) Died in Your Arms managed with some superfluous brackets and a melodramatic chorus.