Babe Rainbow by The House of Love

Babe Rainbow, the third album from London's the House of Love, came out on Fontana in 1992, and it's the sound of a band that had lost half its founding spark and pressed on anyway. Guy Chadwick still wrote the songs, sang them and played guitar, but co-founder Terry Bickers, whose lead guitar had lit up the first two records, was gone. Peter Evans, Chris Groothuizen and Simon Walker were still on board.

The band's name had been made on richly detailed, psychedelic guitar textures, and the critics liked what they heard here: Babe Rainbow got a warm reception and made the UK top 40. In America, "You Don't Understand" climbed to number nine on Billboard's Modern Rock chart and kept them on alternative radio. It followed A Spy in the House of Love and came before Audience with the Mind, and the band split in 1993.

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