Jimmy Barnes waited three years before releasing the follow-up to the hugely successful
Freight Train Heart.
Two Fires was the result, and you would never guess by listening to it that the gap between this and its predecessor had been so long.
Two Fires is standard
Barnes: arena rock anthems and commercial ballads topped by
Barnes' nicotine-inflected rasp. Put simply, if you heard
Freight Train Heart, you've pretty much heard
Two Fires. It was a safe option for
Barnes to release what is, in effect, Freight Train Heart 2, but not a good option. Only a few songs are anything more than album filler (most notably "Let's Make It Last All Night"), making
Two Fires an album for die-hard fans only. ~ Jonathan Lewis