50 Minutes Later (2005)

"It seems "50 Minutes." and it's predecessor "6pm" were recorded during the same recording sessions: they're very much alike and they are meant to be. Although there's some minor differences. On this album the song writing is more important. On other solo efforts with vocals, it was obvious Manzanera tried to reach the same quality level of song writing as Roxy Music but most of the time, even with the support of Andy MacKay, he failed. But here, the song writing is top notch. Especially the melodies throughout the album are magnificent. But only the great song "Technicolor UFO" has some resemblances with Roxy Music due to the guitar parts, the wonderful chorus, the female backing vocalists and also there's one Paul Thompson on the drums on most of the tracks of this album. This is a powerful track that recaptures the moods of the psychedelic pop music at the end of the sixties. As it is combined with a modern arrangement and production techniques it doesn't sound outdated." (Fishy, Progarchives)