The third full length album by The Bats finds the Kiwi-rock fab-four still drawing on their traditional combination of shimmering melodies, joyous harmonies, gleaming guitars and contemplative, poetically beautiful lyrical content. But unlike this album's predecessors, the music is nolonger enveloped in a haunting, shadowy haze, but bathed in a vivid, vibrantly glowing light. The delectable cross-harmonies of Robert Scott (guitar/voice) and Kaye Woodword (guitar/voice) are bold and lucid, with radiant, jangling guitars, Paul Keen's playful basslines and Malcom Grant's upbeat drumming providing a gleaming, subtly haunting atmosphere. The album opens elegantly with the chiming "The Boogey Man", a spright, warm track draped with lyrics that weave a vivid, perhaps even dark, tale; 'The night is down and you're walking home/You are safe although you're alone/I wouldn't know what you see/I may have ended this game for you/Now in the dusk of your own time/You're hurting people that are floating 'round you/I couldn't say what you need/You've got it already in your head'. The spright, brightly ringing feel works powerfully on other cuts as well, such as the carefree "Hold All the Butter" and "Straight Image", the lyrics of which are