Diana: Familiar Touch review – criminally boring

(Culvert/ILS/Caroline)Fairly or otherwise, the 80s are a musical era long defined by irony and inauthenticity, a triumph of alloy over purity. Canadian trio Diana’s first album, Perpetual Surrender, had fun playing with these tired themes, taking an intriguing if unexceptional gauzy approach to synth-pop: the sound of Phil Collins flying between Live Aids, as heard from the baggage hold. This follow-up is a huge disappointment, a criminally boring collection of overlong stadium pop homilie