Having re-invented themselved as a lean, mean rock'n'roll machine on the sadly overlooked Welcome To Wherever You Are, INXS have forged an even brasher new sound on this album, the 10th of a 16-year career. If Welcome was their most guitar orientated album since Listen Like Thieves, then Full Moon takes them even a step further with some of the tracks - Days of Rust, Make Your Peace and Time - veering as close to genuine heavy rock as INXS have ever gone. But the rock tracks form only part of what is really a three dimensional album and the band's new energy - and urgency - has been channelled to every outlet. Subsequently, the dance songs have more groove and the ballads have more soul. You'd be forgiven for thinking that INXS studied the last couple of U2 albums before coming up with the albums surprising first single, The Gift, but after several listens the insistent, industrial strength bass-line and distorted guitar makes the song almost hypnotic, even without a proper chorus. Elsewhere, the band have gone for a slinky blues feel on the title track with ex-Pretender Chrissie Hynde providing some smoky vocals. Likewise Michael Hutchence duets with soul legend Ray Charles on the big, funky Please (You Got That), which has hit single written all over it. INXS have been contending with a media driven backlash in Australia for the last couple of years while, at the same time, their popularity in the US has declined leaving them in a precarious position. The band's desire for continued growth is admirable but if this album doesn't work - and it deserves to - you'd have to think the INXS star has wanned for good.