This album is an unfortunate confluence of trip-hop, late nineties alt rock and dimensionless bubble gum pop. I think I got this as a promo working for Media Play in the late 90s. It has a Portishead-y lite feeling to it, on at least a few tracks, and the lead singer kind of sounds like the Cardigan's vocalists, but less charming and with mostly meaningless lyrical content. One of the songs sounds like the Cocteau Twins for maybe a few seconds. The first track is kind of interesting for how drastic the music shifts between sub-genres and vibes, and momentarily reminded me of an artless, humorless Mr. Bungle. This also sounds like a grab bag of sort-of sound-alike productions that could function in late 90s trailers for teen movies or commercials. One of the songs made it into the feature film Practical Magic, I Have Read. There are moments of pop-song success in some of the transitions to choruses, and maybe from bridges also, really I don't know my grasp of musical theory, vocab and structure is tenuous but honestly those bits would probably be better off in other songs. I feel like this is a maybe extremely unfair target for a review, since who even bought this album, even in the 90s when this would have had been marketed by a major label and wouldn't have seemed so weird to exist. "Chocolate" is a completely vacant cribbed Portishead song, and maybe ripped off the string section from Bjork's Play Dead. I can't even tell who made this music, it's just the vocalist and a long list of producers, all of whom have produced this record to sound as if it exists only inside a computer from the late 90s. Who played the keyboard strings? Who played the pro-tools? I just listened to this whole album almost.