If Lush were a Friends character, they'd be Phoebe. Saturnine yet breathless, these four new songs on the EP (since drummer Chris Acland's suicide in 1996 derailed the band altogether) pick up the shoegazey mood of 1992's Spooky rather than their grungy Britpop Lovelife set.
On Lost Boy, Miki Berenyi unapologetically cries out for Acland in arrested disbelief that he's still gone, while Out Of Control lays out the love for a daughter who's walking in her mother's shoes. Lush may have needed the last 20 years to heal but, like Phoebe, they're still capable of a wry smile.
