The Information on: Randy Newman's `Bad Love'

What Is It?

The first non-soundtrack album by the American singer-songwriter and film composer since his 1988 Land of Dreams outing. In the meantime, the master satirist responsible for "Lonely at the Top" and "Short People" has been making music for the likes of A Bug's Life and Toy Story, among others. His latest work, produced by Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake, has had a very warm critical reception.

What They Say About It

"Bad Love is the work of a master at the peak of his powers... for all his achievements, Newman has rarely written songs quite as satirically sharp as these... a beautiful, virtually flawless recording," Andy Gill, The Independent.

"Listening to Bad Love gives you that luxurious but tragically rare sensation of being in the hands of a master, where everything happens for a reason," Adam Sweeting, The Guardian.

"Here he triumphantly returns to the clinically sardonic dissection of the American psyche that he does best... in short, a masterclass in the craft of songwriting," Nigel Williamson, The Times.

"Dressed with tasty orchestral arrangements, Bad Love is classy and sometimes funny... yet it takes bitterness to relish Newman (which is why critics like him more than the public)..." Neil Spencer, The Observer.

Where You Can Get It

Bad Love is released on Dreamworks.