Short and sweet -- 14 songs in 25 minutes -- 's can serve as a more than fine primer for homegrown , bedroom style, in the late '90s. Drum machines ticking along, warm keyboard fuzz, guitar, and real percussion here and there, guest vocals from friend/label boss -- uses them all to winsomely entertaining effect. Some songs are mere instrumental fragments, unsurprisingly, but they add to the glazed and summery feeling of the end results nicely. Though the album title might suggest nothing but squelchy sex songs (and there's more than a few lyrics about such a subject), tends toward the gently emotional, even with songs possessing loaded titles like and 's singing slots easily into the / less-is-more approach, sweetly drifting amid the beats and melodies and suiting. To his credit, especially given the short length of , demonstrates some smart creative variety throughout, as with the slightly more conventional but still fine guitar-led which becomes a little psych-nugget almost in spite of itself (admittedly, the flute or recorder doesn't hurt). Check out the wonderful a slow, moody number full of implicit drama thanks to the surging keyboard and guitar combination, even as 's singing remains hushed. also slots into that category, bass tones and a bit of drumming and keyboards providing the minimal bed for 's delivery. ~ Ned Raggett