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Track Listing
1. Sweetness and Light
2. Sunbathing
3. Breeze
4. De-Luxe
5. Leaves Me Cold
6. Downer
7. Thoughtforms (2)
8. Baby Talk
9. Thoughtforms (1)
10. Scarlet (1)
11. Bitter
12. Second Sight
13. Etheriel
14. Hey Hey Helen
15. Scarlet (2)
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Includes the EPs "Scar", "Mad Love" and "Sweetness And Light".
Lush: Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson (vocals, guitar); Steve Rippon (bass); Chris Acland (drums).
Additional personnel: Phil Overhead (percussion).
Producers: John Fryer, Tim Friese-Greene, Robin Guthrie.
Engineers include: Robin Guthrie, Ed Buller, John Fryer.
Recorded at The Greenhouse, September Sound, The Church and First Protocol, London, England in 1989 & 1990.
That one of Lush's first breaks came when the band caught the ear of The Cocteau Twins is none too surprising; the influence of those seminal shoegazers is stamped all over the London four piece's first release GALA. Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie even produces and engineers many of the tracks. But Lush isn't a Cocteau clone by any means; for all the ethereal sugar the band displays on tracks such as "Sweetness and Light," it shows just as much gritty punk fervor on such tracks as "Second Sight." The appealing off-kilter and defiant lilt in Miki Berenyi's unmistakable voice further separates this often-underrated band from the pack.
GALA collects Lush's first three EPs SCAR, MAD LOVE, and SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, and adds two tracks, a breathtaking cover of Abba's "Hey Hey Helen," and a celestial reworking of "Scarlet." "Thoughtforms," is one of Lush's finest early moments, a brilliant combination of driving pop and spiraling melody. Though displaying some forgivable unevenness of form in exhibiting this talented band's growth, GALA remains an impressive, subtly powerful debut.
Industry Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ..an airily-produced combination of dreamily abstract ballads and mid-to-uptempo rockers laced with purple passages of feedback, phasers and light-as-a-fairycake female vocals..
Q (01/01/1991)
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