Books

When news broke that the sensitive Scottish romantics had hooked up with Trevor Horn to record their last album it prompted feelings of both horror and excitement – would everybody’s favourite fey indie cult band end up sounding like ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’? And would that necessarily be a bad thing? But with the ex-Buggles man broadening out their musical palette, it prompted them to more ambitious heights of quirky loveliness – not so evident on the rather typical ‘Books’ but definitely so on the flipside ‘Step into my office baby’ swagger of ‘Your Cover’s Blown’ which almost sounds, gulp, sexy.