Savage Garden - Affirmation

Where the previous Savage Garden album had its charms, this feels like it is everything the critics said was bad about that album.  It feels a bit too calculated (I Knew I Loved You, is a straight rip off of Truly, Madly, Deeply for instance).  I know that this is a bit to “muso” for a general review, but I feel that there are some good ideas on this album and if they had chosen a more cutting edge producer they might have drawn these ideas out.  Instead they have Mariah Carey’s producer.  So, the album has a nice pop sheen to it.  But it could have done with a few more rough edges.