After many stubborn years in the pop desert with an ever-dwindling fan base,
Telephone's former frontman scores not only with critics, but wins back older fans and garners new ones with
Ideal Standard. The album is a solid pop/rock showcase for
Jean-Louis Aubert's humanist concerns; it also contains a musical setting to Arthur Rimbaud's poem "Sensation" as the album closer. ~ Thom Jurek