Electric Basement
Perhaps the farthest astray of their debut since Slang, Def Leppard plunge totally "Nsync" with modern pop rock sentiment on X. With 70% of the record shuffle-based AOR, yearning like yuppies in renewal, it's easy to make fun or shake one's head in refusal. But the good news is, for an Nsync-ish record, this is better than their counteparts in many ways.
The Leps are more genuinely convincing with their material than the boy bands and quite frankly, the ballads are better than most of what they've done in the past. Instead of the techno turgidness of "Love Bites", or rather "Love Bytes", we get more nuance-laced and mature waves of melody as in "Long Long Way to Go."