Welcome to Wherever You Are
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Welcome to Wherever You Are
Welcome to Wherever You Are is the eighth album by the Australian rock band INXS, which was released on 3 August 1992. With grunge and alternative music breaking into the mainstream, INXS tried to establish a new direction for itself, incorporating sitars, a 60-piece orchestra, and a much more “raw” sound to their music. In its four star review of the album, Q called it “… a far more engaging and heartfelt collection than anything the group has put out in recent memory … It rocks,” and listed it as one of the 50 Best Albums of 1992.-Wikipedia
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Diffuser
Welcome to Wherever You Are, released on Aug. 3, 1992, would be the band's last-ever platinum-selling studio project in America. INXS actually received positive notices in the U.K. for Welcome to Wherever You Are, and the album soared to a career-best No. 1 there.
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AllMusic
Although INXS needed to experiment badly, their attempt at self-reinvention, Welcome to Wherever You Are, didn't even come close to gaining commercial or critical acceptance.
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People
Now the Aussie sextet is sticking its neck out, and the result is its most adventurous outing since it struck gold with Listen like Thieves in 1986.
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Salute Magazine
It is arguable whether or not the album received the appropriate amount of attention, but it is certainly one of the group’s most underrated and overlooked.
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Rolling Stone
Twenty-five years ago, the fallen dinos of INXS sought out the dancefloor. Today, the rhythm sounds old-fashioned, and he distorts the view of all the melodies that want to decorate with him. What a pity: on their eighth album, INXS proved for the last time that they could have been stars for life.
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Stereogum
After 1990's X didn't mimic the success of KICK, INXS returned with 1992's Welcome To Wherever You Are. . . . It seems to kick off a new era of the band -- calmer, more mature, less intensely sexual but still undeniably sensual.
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news.com.au
But Welcome to Wherever You Are captured the band using their imaginations again. Mark Opitz was back on board and they had something to prove.
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Music Stack
Eastern instrumentation, big sing-a-long choruses, and tighter-than-usual song arrangements resulted in an album that fans were less pleased with. Strangely, many critics felt this record was the best thing INXS had done in their career.
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uDiscovermusic
With ‘Welcome To Wherever You Are’, INXS cycled through grunge, pop and their own patented sinewy grooves to create a world-beating classic.
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Rhino
. . . Welcome to Wherever You Are is the sound of a rock band trying to do something different and succeeding at the task.
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Entertainment
INXS’ slow-and-steady move to world domination seems to have stalled: . . . . Dumping longtime producer Chris Thomas, the Aussie sextet has taken over the boards (with a little help from Mark Opitz) for Welcome to Wherever You Are and proved that, well, it can produce a record like ”X” on its own.
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Rolling Stone archive
On Welcome to Wherever You Are, INXS tries to regain its momentum and almost succeeds. This is musically the band's richest, most adventurous outing since Thieves – chock-full with irresistible hooks, churning rhythms and Beatlesque orchestrations.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
INXS' one big stab at cutting an experimental album. Sound effects, electronic noises, and atmospheric synth lines creep in at the edges (the New Wave-y "Strange Desire"), and for once they try hard to vary their tone. It's their most interesting and honest effort, . . . .
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One Man 1001 Albums
The willingness to change the sound and production of their music was always going to make for interesting listening, but the real success of Welcome To Wherever You Are lies with the quality of the songs. The album really doesn’t contain a weak track and is sequenced brilliantly from the curveball opener . . . to the chilly finale . . . .
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PopRockBands
Ironically, INXS's best and most experimental album came out exactly when the album-buying public had ceased paying much attention to them. Arranged and largely written by keyboardist Andrew Farriss, these 12 tracks are almost Beatles-esque in their melodic canniness and sharply etched, multi-layered production.
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