ROXETTE
JOYRIDE
RHINO
★★★
Less than a year after Roxette’s second rarities boxset Bag Of Trix, here’s a 4LP/3CD 30th anniversary box of the duo’s biggest album, promising further unreleased material. Though they were certainly prolific during their commercial heyday – sumptuous B-side The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye was covered by Laura Branigan – it’s starting to look like fans are being fleeced. Why weren’t the dozen unreleased demos included on previous boxsets, which would have allowed a regular and more streamlined Joyride celebration, rather than urging fans to stump up £80 for the 4LP version?