When Lush was around in the 1990s, I was only vaguely aware of the band; I might have mentally filed them under ‘Britpop’. It took me decades to fully appreciate them as one of the best bands to come out of Britain in that era. Which is awfully long, given that they played a poppy kind of shoegaze and had not one but two female vocalists. That objectively doesn’t matter, but is the kind of thing I love, and this is my blog. Downer is from their 1990 debut album Gala, which label 4AD recently reissued in a remastered version.