Indie band’s comeback LP is a fine document of like-it-is affairs.
Fronted by UK-based Brazilian singer Isabel Monteiro, Drugstore emerged in 1993. But their slow, yearning songs were at odds with the primary colours of Britpop. In fact, they never really fitted into any particular category and, despite high profile fans like Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley and a top 40 album, they drifted towards the margins until announcing a hiatus in 2002.
Prompted by the gift of a guitar by a fan, Monteiro relaunched the group for occasional shows in 2009. Such a romantic gesture really demanded a positive outcome, but even so the odds would have been long that, 18 years after their formation, they would reappear with some of the strongest material.
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