Looking Glass were a one-hit wonder (well, two, if you’re in America, which we aren’t) and this “Brandy” was something-out-of-nothing for them. Apparently, they were pretty popular but their regular fans didn’t like this one, thinking it was too ‘pop’: well, them’s the breaks, your loss is our gain. It has that mysteriousness about it, and maybe part of that is because it really wasn’t what the band ‘did’, so they weren’t following a tried-and-tested. And it’s just the kinda mysteriousness we liked: everything about this one is slightly off-kilter, a bit sea-legs’y, a bit like the record made itself with no human involvement. We especially tried to get some “Brandy” going on in our “The Rhythm Of Love” on “The Great White Wonder”… can you tell? (Well, the bits which weren’t written by The Strangeloves anyway: the verses are theirs, but the chorus and middle eight are homegown. They insisted on 100% of the publishing, though, same as happened with “Who Loves You”.) Anyway, big plus, it’s got a good amount of romantic doom to it which, you know, is always going to be a good thing around here.
"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album.
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