Chasing Shadows

Following the missteps of two more mainstream-sounding efforts, the Comsat Angels signed to Island at the behest of an in-house champion — Robert Palmer, in another example of his wide and intriguing tastes — and created Chasing Shadows, almost picking up where Fiction had left off. The quartet sounds like a full, proper live unit again right from the start thanks to the great wallop and striking arrangement of “The Thought That Counts,” while Palmer takes a turn on backing vocals on the simultaneously beautiful and deeply dramatic “You’ll Never Know.”