arrived at a strange time for . Prior to the early 1993 release of their debut, , they had released a series of critically acclaimed U.K. EPs that balanced the shimmering, otherworldly quality of with an increased sense of songcraft from ex- / -- that really emphasized the , while adding emotional undercurrents that could shift from sweetness to haunting within one song. , like the EPs, captured this well, and since it arrived when all things had a shot at the charts, they actually had a gold album and a hit with This led to semistardom -- not nearly as big as -n- or , nor as gossip-worthy as , but to a lot of appearances at festivals and even the cover of , which meant that they wanted to broaden their audience and sound with their second album, the -produced . Though the selected songs were good, the big, glossy production didn't quite fit, but it came to define -- deliberately, too, since they began to remix their British hits for and modern radio. 's 2002 collection collects all of the singles, but not necessarily in their original form. Included are in the remix version (which was, admittedly, U.S. single version); the live version of ; a U.S.-radio mix of There are a couple of key album tracks, and a whole lotta B-sides: a wonderful, slyly sexy version of from 's , a cover of and, of course, the tremendous title track. There's also some collector-bait ephemera here, okay B-sides, a French version of a song from , and a cover of ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine