If that's too short for a review, we can only say that Love Sensuality Devotion is perhaps the best thing you can do with 70 minutes of your time. Time and time again.
The album has all the old hits you know and love so well. From way back to 1991's Sadness, through Mea Culpa, Principles of Lust, Age of Loneliness and Morphing Thru' Time to the path-breaking Return To Innocence, I Love You, I'll Kill You and Gravity of Love with Ann Ruth's searing vocals. And it's also got some newbies mixed in with the oldies for good measure: Turn Around, which opens the album, and The Landing.
While neither of the two really show an evolution in the unique sound of the band – perhaps front man Michael Cretu is holding back some new aural developments for a future album – the two new songs fit comfortably in the middle-of-the-road of the existing oeuvre.
For newcomers, the themes could be straight out of life at the end of the twentieth century: love, sex, faith, religion, spirit. The music, though, it has been said, weaves itself around the themes, never once interfering. Instead, it blends gracefully the hip-hop/dance/trance genres, with the older tracks remastered for a more upbeat, contemporary feel.
Buy it !!