Twisted by Del Amitri

Twisted, the fourth studio album from Glasgow's Del Amitri, came out on A&M on 27 February 1995, and it turns the amps up. After the gentler sheen of 1992's Change Everything, the guitars get louder and grittier, though the band never let go of the melodies that were always their calling card. It climbed to number three in the UK, and Q counted it among the 10 best albums of the year.

The lineup was in flux: guitarist David Cummings bowed out after this record to write for television, and Chris Sharrock drummed on it without ever signing on full time. The irony is that the song that carried Twisted furthest, the breezy "Roll to Me", cracked the top ten of the US Hot 100 and became their biggest single, and the band have tended to shrug it off as a disposable bit of pop. "Tell Her This", also here, remains one of their best-known songs.

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