• Escape (The Pina Colada Song) (1 Minute soundsample)
• Partners In Crime
• Nearsighted
• Lunch Hour
• Drop It
• Him
• Answering Machine
• The People That You Never Get To Love
• Get Outta Yourself (1 Minute soundsample)
• In You I Trust

"Partners In Crime" is a curious album about the continuing ironies of love, affection, and cheating. Probably Holmes didn't think, at the beginning, that this could be a concept album about infidelity. The first hit single, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" presents our narrator feeling the depressions of rutine in his relationship. Egotistically, he searchs the connections section in a newspaper for running away from the boredom of having a steady girlfriend. When he mets his connection, he finds out she's his own girlfriend, also running away from him. The funny thing is they both love Pina Coladas, and to get caught in the rain. But they were long-time lovers, and love, Rupert says, is a fading flower in a world where trust is also fading each and every day. The journey continues as we follow two couples swingin' each other with natural freedom, so natural that we might think it's normal to cheat that way. They had to know that something's wrong with trust. The Title track is a funky-cheating-adult-oriented number with excellent horn arrangements, putting us in the key-city of the cheating events: New York. By this song we already know what we're going to find. After a lament of being "Nearsighted" and being rejected by girls because of that, The narrator sighs and takes the story on the Lunch Hour in Manhattan, where a girl takes the cab to visit her current lover in a hotel, just when she was supposed to have a meal. "Whatever had for lunch agrees with you", Rupert comments with her. With the fast paced rhythm, he introduces us to a "lunch hour" of an airline pilot and the hot business girl from Wall Street. It's the most colorful and descriptive song of the album, and Holmes proves himself as a first-level narrator. "Him" is the moment when the singer finds out he's been cheated for a while, probably the same way he's been doing it. A pack of cigarrettes, next to the window, that is not his brand proves it, and he sings with the biggest self-compassion ever present in a pop song. This guy, Holmes, must really know about love and deception, we think. And the order of the songs are a good proof of that. After "Him", we can tell the guy's is compulsevly searching for love with his "Answering Machine", he wonders about the women he'll never get to love and feels a lot of nostalgia, and goes down to the bottom of his moods. But at the near end of the album, he decides to be sincere with himself and start believing that there must me something better than the life he's been thru. "Get outta yourself". The end of the album is a resolution, a conclusion, a bet for love. "In You I Trust" completes the circle and leaves the listener ready for another pass of that sweet and sour tasted love story. A must for all AOR lovers and cheaters.