Medicine – To The Happy Few

Reunited by Captured Tracks to release their back catalogue, 90s LA shoegazers Medicine decided to record a new album, and the result is far from the wall-of-sound approach taken by other returned 'gazers such as My Bloody Valentine.

As the title suggests, To The Happy Few is full of light and euphoric celebration – all backed by a heaving barrage of guitars and kinetic, dance music-influenced drumming.

It's Not Enough engages with the kind of vocal harmonies more often found in uplifting indie pop, losing none of the feral intensity created by the FX-laden guitars. Burn It is more melancholic in its themes, but with its pulsing electro backbone and stop-start, crescendo-laden drum rolls, it's also an infectious foot-stomper.

Complex time signature changes and experimental vocal processing illuminate Butterfly's Out Tonight, while album closer Daylight's lounge lizard cool is buried under a haze of heavenly distortion. A welcome and quite surprising return.