This Is Music: The Singles 92-98 cover

This Is Music: The Singles 92-98

Recorded
1992-1998
Released

Released in 2004 well after the band’s apparently final breakup in acrimony — Nick McCabe having finally reached his fill even while the Urban Hymns tour was still ongoing — This is Music already seemed like a bit of a collection of distant memories given all the musical and cultural shifts of intervening years. But while it can’t fully capture the group’s fully epic sprawl early on — only the eight minute version “Gravity Grave” does those honors here — it does make a case for the group’s balance between soaring rock punch and focused ballads at its best.

Ned Raggett

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