“The first Boomtown Rats album for 36 years comes trailed by promotional bumf that really does it no favours at all. Pondering the state of the world, it asks, amid a great deal of other hyperbole: “Where is the noise that feels like this? Who is going to sing these blues?” The band’s pitch would lead you to believe that first time round, they were somewhere in the rock pantheon between Bob Dylan a”
