(AU magazine, November 2009)
The Seattle sound of yoof is given a slight maturity check on this, Sunny Day Real Estate's second record. Originally released in 1995, at the time two of the band's members were already playing with the Foo Fighters, and the collaborative efforts show in the tunefulness on unavoidably rocky tracks like 'Theo B'. The tune seems straight outta the Grohl stable, as well as being drenched with the tried - tired? - and tested volume changes favoured by the Pixies. The album was originally given to Sub Pop without a title or artwork, which gives something to its mythology, and the band's impending break-up seems impressed in every note, from the plaintive '5/4' to the inspiring 'Waffle'. Not as complete as debut Diary, it nonetheless boasts a fragility which is even more alluring.
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