Solid second solo album

First of all, to the Amazon editorial:
*** The above text contains pasted editorial quite serious mistakes. ***
Author Daniel Durchholz wrote his few lines apparently without thorough research and with some superficial knowledge. ;-)

Has he ever heard the album with open ears?
Sometimes it is not enough to read some information about the artist briefly at Wikipedia. ;-)

HIMBG is only somewhat a PC divorce album.
Admittedly, it includes some song holdover from the Face Value recordings.
Certainly treat some texts of HIMBG his pain of separation, but overall the mood is more positive than the debut album.
However, and Face Value was a total divorce album of Collins.
Far away from the texts is the music of HIMBG not quite as gloomy as its predecessor. :-)

More precisely on the errors in the text above.
At the time of recording of HIMB Collins was already in a new relationship, namely with his later second wife, Jill Travelman.
From his first wife Andrea he was divorced since 1980, he married Jill Travelman about 1984th

He has therefore probably sung barely 1982 end of this second ergo not first marriage to Jill.
Moreover, I wonder: Where does the album Collins sings the name of his girlfriend / wife Jill?
I can not remember the name to have heard somewhere, but let happy to teach me. ;-)

For album. Many say it's kind of cheap knock-offs of Face Value.
This can only agree in part, but you do not. :-P

I personally felt HIMBG always as a kind of B-side face-value at a high level.
We hear that the songs with a relatively small time interval to FV incurred.

However, I never found the FV Comparison completely fit.
Unlike Face Value can be found on HIMBG no (or hardly) analog sounds of the Roland Drum Machine CR-78 (known examples In The Air Tonight and holding hands).

Here and there I can maybe hear some sounds, but it may be my imagination. ;-)
HIMBG is strictly speaking the first real studio production Collins.
Because everything sounds a little smoother and more perfect than FV.

FV heard yet that the basis of the later songs were demos from Collins home studio, the songs of HIMBG all sound a little bit more perfect.
The procedure for HIMBG likely have not changed (even with Going Back 2010, some home demos the basis for the Studio Recordings), but it all sounds smooth ironed as the first album, I personally find.

UU is HIMBG precisely because only a slightly weaker album than FV.
FV is certainly unmatched.
It is also for almost 30 years one of my favorite albums.
I say even that FV is one of the best debut album of all time.
But that does not belong here. ;-)

It would have been nice if the second album would contain a bit more like Droned or holding hands.
I think then it would be a perfect album.
While the West Side is a good instrumental piece, but the two FV-representatives were in their own way but much stronger.

Could I forgive 3.9 stars on Amazon, I would do so. But do not go unfortunately. ;-)
3 stars are actually too little, too much 4 stars.
After zealously consideration I give the plate but 4 stars. ;-)
One of the reasons: In the sense it sounds timeless as for example No Jacket Required for lack of drum machines and synthesizers economical use.

The drums sound overall quite clean.
Leaving aside times of Do You Know Do You Care.
Otherwise, the well-known In The Air Tonight Gated reverb sound was rather avoided.

The second album followed incidentally also Phils first solo tour.
Who has to get an old VHS version of the concert Live at Perkins Palace the chance, this should do.
It was in the sense the last tour on a smaller scale.
The live band is amazing and towards the end a very nice version of Curtis Mayfield songs People Get Ready was at the concert listed.