OCCASIONALLY, a performer is so gifted you look forward to every drop of music they produce.
With his 1999 debut My Beautiful Demon, Wolverhampton-born Christophers produced one of the overlooked gems of that decade. He has not equalled the mix of electronics and ethereal showboating. Since then, times have been hard. The poetry still swoons, but the mood here is edgy and erratic. It is the beginnings of a new sound, an unlikely attempt to fuse a sad-eyed vision to jaunty rhythms. A Good Day for The Hopeless is catchy, while oddly-chirpy keyboards plink throughout the title track, a sort of graveyard sing-along. Fortunately, The Spaces In Between still haunts, River Song and Fake Eyelash linger slightly menacingly in the subconscious. Still, Christophers remains a unique voice but in need of a stabilising producer.
Updated: 09:00 Thursday, November 25, 2004
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