HOW TO COMPOSE POPULAR SONGS THAT WILL SELL may not seem like a continuation of the bleaker winter of 2001's SEX, AGE AND DEATH. It's vitality and pervasive optimism would suggest not. But whereas on his last album Geldof mourned the grief and loss and rage that is the end of love, in this he celebrates it's re-birth. This is great stuff. True stuff. No preening or posturing. Honest, funny, tender essentially human stuff. Very Geldof.