Cure for Sanity by Pop Will Eat Itself

Cure for Sanity, Pop Will Eat Itself's third album, arrived on RCA on 22 October 1990 with Flood producing, and it finds the Stourbridge band long past their grebo beginnings and deep into sample-mad, industrial-strength rock. It's a cut-and-paste riot: beats that clank like machinery, snatches of other people's records, chanted hooks and a gleeful refusal to sit still in any one genre.

"X, Y and Zee" is the sort of thing that sounds like a club and a pub fight happening in the same room. The album only hung around the UK chart for two weeks, topping out at 33, then crept back when it was reissued in July 1991, and in Australia it spent six weeks on the ARIA top 100. Cherry Red gave it a two-disc expansion in 2011, packed with singles and rarities from the same era.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.