Following the success of "Truly Madly Deeply" and "To The Moon & Back", songs of similar slushy and sentimental pop ilk, one would be forgiven for equating Australian duo Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones--aka Savage Garden--with romantic pop songs. The reality is that this is only one area of music in which the partnership truly excels. The cute and talented duo rock out on tracks like "Tears of Pearls", and sound disconcertingly like Michael Jackson a la Bad era on "Break Me Shake Me", which--if you're a fan of that kind of music--is no bad thing. The lyrics range from verging on the deep ("On the telephone line I am anyone/I am anything I wanna be/I could be a supermodel or Norman Mailer") to wonderfully throwaway ("Sweet like a chic-a-cherry cola"), and the album as a whole hints at greater things to come from this band. --Ronita Dutta
