Her Highness
Medicine is another studio group that owes a strong debt to the  Valentines, but Los Angeles-based songwriter/producer Brad Laner finally emerges  from Kevin Shields' shadow onHer Highness, the band's third and best  album. For the first time, songs such as "All Good Things" and  "Candy Candy" are strong enough that they would shine even if you took  away the highly stylized production, massive guitars and keyboards, and  mysterious layers of strings that are the band's reason for being.--Jim  DeRogatis