1. Wild & Moody [1:21]
2. Stranger Things Have Happened [4:09]
3. Kill That Thermostat [4:48]
4. Helpless [5:04]
5. The Price To Pay [5:12]
6. Bounds Of Reason, Bonds Of Love [3:50]
7. Walking To The Beat [6:01]

Recorded at Alfa Studio "A" and LDK Aug. to Sep. 1984

Yukihiro Takahashi - keyboards, vocals, drums
Steve Jansen - words on track 2
Peter Barakan - words on track 3 and 5
Iva Davies - Oboe, guitar, backing vocals, words on track 7
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Fairlight
Hosono - bass
Mitsuru - sax
Hideki Matsuke - Orange-2
Myrah & Penny, Rodney Drummer - backing vocals
Bill Nelson - guitar, vocals, words on track 6 At barely thirty minutes more a maxi-single than a full-length album, this first post-YMO project by Yukihiro Takahashi is also a bit short on ideas.

Its overall atmosphere is slightly lacklustre - "Moody" only perhaps, but "Wild" is a definite overstatement. Plenty of harsh industrial sounds and a few contributions from former YMO buddies Sakamoto (Fairlight) and Hosono (bass) as well as Bill Nelson on guitar/vocal can't conceal the fact that the musical material is a bit average, a significant pointer perhaps being the fact that all the song-lyrics come from writers other than Takahashi.
On the plus side, Takahashi's voice has never sounded better, making it less of a potential irritation and the addition of a few female backing singers also help things along. The best song is perhaps the Neil Young cover 'Helpless' though the album closes strongly with 'Walking To The Beat', co-written with Iva Davies.

1999. Ivar de Vries