Amazon.co.uk Review
If her 1999
debut album reflected the post-folk, torch-singing side of ex-One Dove vocalist
Dot Allison's character, so this sophomore effort,
We Are Science, demonstrates quite a different facet, with much of the album taking its cue from eighties pretenders
Fischerspooner or the avante electrosonics of Adult. The songs are still here of course, with the dirge-like title track and repetitively voxed "I Think I Love You" countered by the stirring "Strung Out" and aching "Lover," both of which feature Mercury Rev's Grasshopper, but where the first album married odd collaborators with an expansive cast of musicians, this second is a much more low-key affair, with Allison and Lone Swordsman Keith Tenniswood's production less acid-house than quiet-night-in-the-living room material. --
Kingsley Marshall
CD Description
Second solo album from the former vocalist of trip-hop stars One Dove, her follow-up to 1999's 'Afterglow'. Darker and less immediate than her debut, it has a heavy '80s vibe inspired by the sound of electro and Factory bands like Joy Division and New Order. Featuring contributions from Keith Tenniswood of Two Lone Swordsmen and the members of Mercury Rev, it includes the single 'Substance'.