Placebo married teenage angst with shimmering pop sensibilities on an album that captured vocalist Brian Molko at his most mercurial.

What NME said in 1998: “These aren’t songs that need to be studied too carefully. Whatever Molko says about the vulnerability and self-criticism of the lyrics on this record, the overall effect hardly reeks of repentance or fragility, the songs here are too confident for that, too sure of both where they’re going and how they’re going to get there.”

