Supergrass

On their fourth album, Supergrass have balanced the quirky pop genius of their debut, I Should Coco, with the more heady infectiousness of their second disc, In It for the Money. By invoking spirits of T. Rex, Badfinger, Pete Shelley and Spinal Tap, the 'Grass somehow manage to find themselves in the middle.

He's so stoned, doesn't even know what he's on about," murmurs Gaz Coombes of
Supergrass on the spaced-out ending of "Evening of the Day," as the rest of the band plays
congas and indulges in some off-key whistling. "Maybe he should go and lay down." It's easy
to not take Brit-rock quartet Supergrass seriously on their fourth album, Life on Other
Planets: Scattered throughout the rest of the disc are chirping birds, bleating sh... More >