As far as I am aware, this is a one off album. I picked it up from a small back-street record shop in England about fifteen years ago (not the version in the video as that was a YouTube find). I loved the epic grandiosity of the minimalist set-up and lyrical content. Essentially it was just Valente with a twelve-string singing in the first-person to whichever girl (although more from the friend perspective it seems), and what a sound it is. I chose this song as it is one of the shorter, more instantly accessible and so damn positive tunes; the others are growers and perhaps require several listens before they start infiltrating your mind, but you won't be able to shake them out when they do. I love that his band, Quicksilver Messanger Service, waited loyally for him to serve a prison sentence on a drug charge before reintegrating him into the group; they must have thought it was worth the wait too.
