Midge Ure Defends The Ultravox Album Everyone Hates

When Ultravox released their ridiculously 'long-time-between-drinks' album Brilliant last year, we weren't particularly fussed over a record that we felt failed to live up to its name. (Us and a few other websites/magazines around the world.)

We even had a second go at it.

Hell hath no fury like an Ultravox fan scorned though, with lovers of the '80s new wavers unleashing their wrath upon us for stating so. If you don't remember, it went a little something like this:

We think you get the idea. Now Ultravox icon Midge Ure, who's currently out here on a solo tour, has defended the album against his army of critics, particularly those in the British press.

"[Brilliant] wasn't made for them. It was made for us. We wanted to do something that, if we were gonna come back and make a record, any new recordings, we wanted to do it to our standard. So we spent a year-and-a-half, nearly two years, writing and recording that record. I wanted it to sound like classic Ultravox, but contemporary at the same time – and so I think we pulled it off."

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