This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Remember Caught By The Fuzz?
Those who do will recall it as two minutes and 17 seconds of perfect, bratty British punk-pop from the three teen terrors in Supergrass. Well, now you can forget it. You won’t find anything with the same irreverent sass and punky spunk on this now-twentysomething outfit’s third album. What you will find is yet another example of what happens to perfectly decent rock bands when they start believing their own hype and behaving like Serious Artists — the electric guitars get turned down to make room for acoustics and keyboards, the lead solos lose out to string sections, and the tunes get drowsier, droopier and drained of every bit of the brash exuberance that made the band popular in the first place. Well, maybe not every bit — the David Bowie-like glam-pop of Pumping On Your Stereo shows the boys remember how to rock. Still, at times you wonder if they remember the chords to Caught By The Fuzz anymore.
