Yes by Morphine

Yes, Morphine's third album, came out on Rykodisc in March 1995 with Paul Q. Kolderie producing, and it's another dose of the Cambridge trio's self-styled "low rock". There's no electric guitar anywhere: just Mark Sandman's two-string bass and deep, laid-back croon, Dana Colley's baritone saxophone and Billy Conway's drums, now permanently behind the kit after taking over from Jerome Deupree.

What sounds like a gimmick on paper turns into something smoky, sly and seductive, part blues, part jazz, part beat-poet late-night rock. "Honey White" is the rowdiest of the lot, a sax-honking shuffle with a leer in its voice. It became their first album to reach the Billboard 200, even if it did less business overseas than Cure for Pain, and by February 1997 it had sold 156,000 copies in the US.

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