After listening to this album a couple of times it really grew on me. All the songs are real catchy and unique; now it's all I listen to. Martin's voice sounds great and the music is outstanding, if you enjoy ABC than you will definitely enjoy this album.

i have been waiting for this new ABC cd since i heard the first whisperings of a new album. the music is great! Very ABC! but not a "stuck in the 80's" sound. it's fresh and modern but with that incredible melody, harmony, smooth production, and clever "rhyming couplets" that fans like myself want from Martin Fry. i wish Mark White were still interested in participating in the music; but the collection of songs certainly isn't lacking from it. "Sixteen Seconds" (the first track) is a touch "hard rockin" for me but still a great song.

I am going to see them in the ReGeneration tour at the end of the month and wanted to check out the latest music. Very good CD but this is not an 80's flashback, it has a modern sound.

Should be in alot more music buyers collections than it probably is.

As a long-time ABC fan for over 25 years, I eagerly awaited for ABC's new TRAFFIC CD, their first real full-length CD of new music since 1997's SKYSCRAPING 11 years ago - and the wait was worth it! This isn't ABC resting on its laurels, but creating state-of-the-art pure pop confections all informed and elevated by Martin Fry's still-suave voice and clever wordplay - is there any contemporary singer-songwriter aside from Elvis Costello who knows his way around a quick-witted couplet? Tracks like THE VERY FIRST TIME, WAY BACK WHEN, LOVE IS STRONG, RIDE, and more all compare to the best ABC tracks over the years - the soaring sonics of LEXICON OF LOVE paired with the guitar attack of BEAUTY STAB but updated for '08 sensibilities. Taken as a whole, the CD is very impressive and a solid listen all the way through, considering ABC has been churning out singles for almost almost three decades. Too bad U.S. radio and/or MTV/VH1 won't touch this: TRAFFIC deserves to be a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Martin Fry and Co. are still "so hip it hurts."

I'm from the camp that actually liked Beauty Stab, in fact it's my fave ABC album. Viva Beauty Stab!

That said, ABC never made another full album (and this was back in yee olden days when vinyl was the norm) that I appreciated in the whole. Of course there were a few amazing songs from various releases so thank goodness for mixed tapes and "greatest hits" collections.

I was pleasantly surprised to catch ABC/Martin Fry on the Band's Reunited MTV show. That was fun and whatta hunk...but I digress. Ahem.

I totally missed hearing about Skyscraping CD (pity these aren't being released in North America) but I have been listening to Traffic and it's excellent.

Campily twee as ever this is romantic ("Caroline" and well, ultimately all the other songs!) soul singer r & b pop tuneage with a titch of humour ("you like Starsky / I like Hutch.) A few definite rockers too. Rah. Some great female backup vocals complete the picture. An excellent release!