buffyleigh
2
Good pop album taking inspiration from indie rock, shoegaze, electronics... Sufficiently diverse and efficient, well served by Manson voice. It succeeds in not being too tawdry to be enjoyable despite its mainstream leanings.
Alternative bands from the 90s with one word names tend to blend into one for me and I initially struggled to remember anything from this one apart from Stupid Girl. However, I was pleasantly surprised by some of the more down tempo tracks on this that edged into shoegaze/trip hop territory, with the highlight for me being A Stroke of Luck with Shirley Manson’s voice flowing like warm honey. Lovely stuff.