"Luscious" doesn't do justice to the look of this package, which includes all eight Eurythmics studio albums, from 1981's forgotten debut, In the Garden, to 1999's brief reunion, Peace. Given the influence the band had on video and graphics in their day, it's fitting that high-quality booklets and new sleeve notes have been commissioned. Twenty years on, the music, typified by the breakthrough 1983 album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), seems just as stylised.
The trendy idea of "futurism" hangs over Annie Lennox's detached vocals and Dave Stewart's high-resolution electronic accompaniment, but such quaintness doesn't negate the fact that the pair of them could write tunes like nobody's business. Funk and Latin were also within their abilities (see Wrap it Up and This Is the House), but a bonus cover of Lou Reed's Satellite of Love captures their brittle essence more precisely.