Cirque du Soleil deliberately repeat themselves in
Delirium, at least as far as the album of music based on the touring stage show is concerned. In most cases, producer, arranger, composer, and multi-instrumentalist
Francis Collard, who is the major force behind the disc, samples from tracks on previous
Cirque du Soleil albums. What he creates from them is a series of conventional songs in a widescreen pop/rock style, heavy on the keyboard textures and synthesized dance beats. There's nothing here as exotic as some of
Cirque du Soleil's soundscapes. The songs all have lyrics, too, most of them written by Robbie Dillon, and most of them in English, with some in French. Those lyrics are cliché-filled, simpleminded expressions of pop philosophy for the most part, but still, this remains one of
Cirque du Soleil's more listenable and coherent collections. ~ William Ruhlmann