hothouse flowers - born
released with very little push - saw a performance on tfi friday that was impressive, definitely away from the irish pop of old and more stripped sound. then saw this in finland cheap - and was very impressed. almost a complete new style for them .. but a lot has been borrowed from u2 experiments. lots of studio trickery and overdubs makes this a very full, rock sounding disc .. and a couple of the songs are very strong. a good one for car journeys. surprised me how good this one is.