The top five are startegisch awesome scattered all over the plate - Closing Time (track 1), Never You Mind (Track 4), Secret Smile (track 5), This Will Be My Year '(track 8) and of course ` California '(track 10) - but the rest of the songs is hardly weaker.
Arrangement default here complement the slightly distorted guitars with piano, electronic Keboards discreetly used and the dynamic rhythm section to an almost ingratiating sound. Sometimes it surprised a little, and may sound a tiny bit too rough for mainstream, but on the one hand makes the charm of the plate and on the other hand also referenced on the roots of the coming of the alternative rock band.
That you abschauten to some of the Britpop, enter overtly to the very witty lyrics to Never You Mind ':
"Rolling along to the song That aggravates us
Beckoned on by the mirage of an oasis
Hurry, I'm getting blurry
And it's no longer clear in my mind "
An album that is still fun for 11 years after its release and put a smile on the lips because of its melody bliss. Still to this disc is very well aged and produced totally stylish. As I said a pity that the big breakthrough with this production failed to materialize, because you have managed to, the successor, All About Chemistry 'by the self-consciousness thrust would probably have become equally well; so but it was only a pale reflection of this CD here that convinces excellent songwriting mainly by.
