This is something of a return to standard operational form for Magazine, who thawed after recording Secondhand Daylight to throw together an energetic batch of colorful and rhythmically intricate songs. It's an unexpected move considering that they enlisted Martin Hannett (Joy Division,A Certain Ratio,Crispy Ambulance), master of the gray hues, as the producer. A looser, poppier album than its predecessors somewhat ironically, a cover of Sly & the Family Stone's