The newest album, Charm School, will also be released in the U.S. The cover art is in place now, and the picture being used is from the Joyride sessions and has been used previously on a t-shirt and in the gatefold sleeve of the unreleased Joyride LP. For the most part, though, this is two pop artists at the top of their game. Roxette’s new greatest hits album, aptly named Greatest Hits, will be released in the United States on July 26. The low-key "Watercolours in the Rain" and the whining "(Do You Get) Excited?" are the only cuts that keep the album from being a total success. "The Big L," "Soul Deep," and "Hotblooded" all follow in the successful vein Gessle and Fredriksson mined with "The Look," while "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)," an insistent rock ballad, and the accordion-driven "Perfect Day" take things down a notch. This, the follow-up to their breakthrough disc, Look Sharp!, sees through on what that collection hinted at, meaning most of the songs sound like they were designed to be hit singles, not just filler between two or three good cuts. From the quiet desperation of "Spending My Time" to the chanting carnival of "Joyride" to the folky "Church of Your Heart," they bring a worldliness to their lyrics and melodies that most pop A-listers don't even have the imagination to dream of. The beauty of Roxette is that the duo of Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson can do practically anything in terms of Top 40 music. Joyride is the third studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released on 28 March.
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