Teen Dream Review

The change is dramatic and it comes from clarity. Everything that was buried on the first two albums is now audible: the drums are live and enormous, the guitars ring rather than smear, and Legrand's voice sits right at the front where it belongs. Crucially, the songs are built now. Zebra opens with a guitar figure and a melody that keeps climbing when you expect it to settle.

Norway is three and a half minutes and completely airtight. Silver Soul builds on one chord for four minutes and never gets dull. Take Care closes with a coda that is one of the most moving passages the band ever recorded. The lyrics are still impressionistic but they have found a subject, which is roughly the moment just after something ends, and the images have got concrete enough to hold. Ten tracks, no filler, and the record that turned a small duo into one of the defining bands of its decade.