'Oh spare me if you please !'
An album I associate with the time when I was buying CDs in the mid to late Nineties which feels in retrospect like a misstep in several respects. People were buying CDs rather than vinyl. And Brit Pop rather than more delicate, literary fare like this which drew on a broader palate of colours and experience.
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This is light and carefee and altogether delightful. The Cardigans second album. It was big in Japan. It should have been huge everywhere. It drew on the taste for Kitsch and Retro and Easy Listening which was all the rage.
But there's more here than meets the eye and the immediate ear,.It has a particular personal resonance for me. A time and a place. I was visiting my brother in Canterbury and my oldest nephew was sat at the kitchen table singing' 'Love me love me say that you love me'. Lovefool .It's not on Life but that's mere detail. Such are the moments that resonate through life. The very essence of existence.
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