Dizzy Heights by The Lightning Seeds

Dizzy Heights is the fourth album from Liverpool's Lightning Seeds, released on Epic in 1996, and it's a sunny, meticulously crafted set from Ian Broudie, who formed the group and produced the record himself. What began as Broudie's studio project had grown into a touring band after Jollification, and the players around him in this period included Martyn Cambell, Paul Hemmings, Chris Sharrock, Ali Kane and Angie Pollock.

The songs are bright, chiming guitar pop with a melancholy streak running underneath, Broudie's gentle voice riding lush arrangements full of jangling guitars and shimmering keyboards. "You Showed Me" is one of its highlights. The album climbed to number 11 on the UK Albums Chart in the middle of the band's most successful decade, and Sony reissued it in its mid-price range in August 1999.

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