HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF VERVELUSH

was the shock 3rd act for the band that seemed doomed soon after its second. Their most successful one as much as that time—1995’s string-swept ballad “Background”—doubled as an epitaph, With all the notoriously embattled marriage between frontman Richard Ashcroft and guitarist Nick McCabe triggering the band’s demise just before it snu