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Sure, there's nothing to really get your teeth into here but then if it's serious or deep you're after then you surely don't buy a Lightning Seeds record! What you do find instead is melody. And lots of it. This is the sort of pop album that only comes out once every blue moon. If Nirvana were stuck in the harsh realities of Kansas begging for release then Broudie had long since arrived over the rainbow on a bed of soft synths, irresistible melodies and fragile guitars. The duet with Alison Moyet, for example, on "My Best Day" is so wonderfully upbeat that I swear even the beats sound like dancing smurfs! And where else do pop records wake up bright eyed to start a new day with such lyrics like: "Mr Johnson's car gets the weekend shine and it's so fine ..Music plays on radios" or the mega funky "Open Goals" in which Broudie announces "Woke up and smiled this morning..wishes swam like fishes in my head". Perhaps for the first time since the single "pure", Broudie's thin whispery but tuneful vocals are completely at ease within the equally soft and sometimes quite hypnotizing musical backings. "perfect" washes over you gently with some lovely mental imagery - "hazy petrol nights..crimson sun on traffic lights" "Why Why Why" dances itself into the overplayed but still lovely "Marvellous". It's not all sunsets and ice creams though. Broudie sensitively sings about domestic violence in the very tender "Punch and Judy" which is another fine song that stays in the mind long after the final bars. "Jollification" is a real treat for fans of sparkly exciting pop music that doesn't pretend to be anything else. Songs like this deserve to be loved forever.
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