page_title: Sweetness and Light (EP)
section_title: Lyrics and music
hierarchical_section_title: Sweetness and Light (EP) / Lyrics and music
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Chris Acland von Lush
context_page_description: Sweetness and Light is the second extended play by the English alternative rock band Lush. It was released on 15 October 1990 on 4AD. Featuring a less abrasive sound than the band's earlier releases, the title track was also released as Lush's first single and included the B-side "Breeze".
  Tim Friese-Greene produced Sweetness and Light over a six-week period at the Greenhouse and Wessex Sound Studios in London. The recording sessions took considerably longer than Lush's previous sessions with Robin Guthrie and John Fryer, but resulted in a more atmospheric dream pop sound.
  Sweetness and Light received mixed reviews upon release, but led to Lush's first major headlining national tour and placed in the national charts. The single was particularly successful in the United States, where it placed at No. 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and received heavy rotation on radio.
context_section_description: "Sweetness and Light" is regarded as one of Lush's signature songs. It is less "heavy" than the band's earlier post-punk-oriented material and has a "looser, lighter air" in its composition and production.
  Stylistically, "Sweetness and Light" is a dream pop song featuring elements of shoegazing music. Described as a "pure pop song", it uses feedback and several effects units on Anderson and Berenyi's guitar tracks. Both Berenyi's lead vocal and Anderson's backing vocal (which drew comparisons to Bilinda Butcher of My Bloody Valentine) are mixed low and obscured. According to NME writer Steve Lamacq, the vocals were "half-hidden" as they were symbolic of the band's "withdrawn" approach towards pop music and their "reluctance to become a "blatant" part of the current 'indie' rush to the charts."
  "Sweetness and Light"'s drum and bass instrumentation—performed by Chris Acland and Steve Rippon respectively—are arranged in a Madchester style and drew comparison to the Stone Roses. Additional percussion on the track was performed by Phil Overhead. Acland and Rippon's rhythm section was made more prominent and "dancefloor-worthy" in Kevin Shields' "Orange Squash" remix, included on the soundtrack to the 1999 film Splendor.
caption: Drummer Chris Acland (pictured in 1994) performed "Sweetness and Light" in a style reminiscent of Madchester music.
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