The Lilac Time : Astronauts Badly Drawn Boy The Real Slim Shady -

The Real Slim Shady - Eminem (4

Down Here in Babylon - Brent Dowe

She Wants - Metronomy (3

The Beachland Ballroom - IDLES

Simultaneously looking back and forward in his music development

The Lilac Time : Astronauts Badly Drawn Boy The Real Slim Shady -With the shoegaze and baggy movements at their zenith, The Lilac Time's fourth album was released at a moment when the left field music zeitgeist was shaped by the nascent shoegaze, baggy and grunge movements. Whilst Astronauts conformed to none of those trends, neither was it the record Stephen had in his head when he finally finished working on it. We'll never know how that record would have sounded, but it's hard to imagine a better version of the