Supergrass – In It for the Money (2021 Remaster) (1997/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Supergrass – In It for the Money (2021 Remaster) (1997/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:15 minutes | 930 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Echo

In It for the Money is the second studio album by English alternative rock band Supergrass, released in 1997. NME called it “more fun than watching a wombat in a washing machine” and named it the 10th best album of the year. In 1998, Q readers voted it the 68th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 57 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

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Supergrass – Live on Other Planets (Live 2020) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Supergrass – Live on Other Planets (Live 2020) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:46 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Supergrass Records

Supergrass celebrate their acclaimed 2020 reunion tour – and 25th anniversary – with Live On Other Planets, a new live album.

The 20-track collection features recordings drawn from this year’s tour and has been mixed by longtime collaborator John Cornfield, who worked on the first three studio albums.

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Supergrass – Life On Other Planets (2023 Remaster) (2022/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Supergrass – Life On Other Planets (2023 Remaster) (2022/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:38:22 minutes | 2,58 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Supergrass Records

Supergrass makes music so effervescent and so effortlessly joyous that it’s easy to take them and their skills for granted. Surely that was the case around the release of their third album, 1999’s eponymous effort, which in its labored fun and weary ballads illustrated just how much hard work it was to craft records as brilliant as I Should Coco and In It for the Money. It suggested the group might have burned too bright and flamed out, but, happily, 2002’s Life on Other Planets is a smashing return to form, an album giddy with the sheer pleasure of making music. What makes this all the more impressive is that this is the record that Supergrass attempted to be – a perfect balance of the sensibility and humor of I Should Coco with the musicality and casual virtuosity of In It for the Money. Where that album felt labored and a little weary, Life on Other Planets is teeming with life. The tempos are sprightly, the hooks tumble out of the speakers, the band mixes up styles and eras, and they never, ever forget the jokes (Gaz’s fleeting Elvis impression on “Seen the Light,” an allusion to Spinal Tap’s “All the Way Home,” or the chorus of “Evening of the Day”). Sure, it’s possible to spot the influence all the way through the album – most clearly T. Rex on “Seen the Light” and “Brecon Beacons,” where Gaz’s warble is uncannily like Marc Bolan’s – but it never sounds exactly like their inspirations – it all sounds like Supergrass. And Supergrass hasn’t offered such pure, unabashed pop pleasure since their debut; there hasn’t been an album that’s this much fun in a long time. Since they’ve been away for a while and have never broken in the States, Supergrass has been curiously overlooked, even though they’re better than 99 percent of the power pop and punk-pop bands out there (plus, their everything-old-is-new-again aesthetic can be heard in such albums as the Strokes’ Is This It?). But, as this glorious record proves, there are few bands around these days who are as flat-out enjoyable as this trio. The world is a better place for having Supergrass in it.

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Supergrass – Supergrass (Deluxe Edition) [2022 Remaster] (1999/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Supergrass – Supergrass (Deluxe Edition) [2022 Remaster] (1999/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:56:50 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Echo

Essentially, Supergrass’ eponymous third album is a refined, subdued extension of In It for the Money. Where that album was a supremely confident, head-spinning musical kaleidoscope, splendidly shifting focus from track to track, Supergrass is down to earth, mellow, and unassuming. Part of the trio’s charm has always been that they’re unabashedly unpretentious, since their casual attitude made their considerable musical skill all the more impressive. On Supergrass, that casualness occasionally crosses the line into laziness. It doesn’t happen all that often, but there are moments on the album that feel tossed-off, such as “What Went Wrong (In Your Head)” and “Beautiful People.” This is particularly evident because these also-rans are surrounded by songs that are as great as anything Supergrass has ever recorded – the harpsichord-driven, pulsing “Your Love”; the stately, sophisticated “Shotover Hill”; the gleeful absurdity of “Jesus Came From Outta Space”; or the breezy, infectious summer single “Pumping on Your Stereo.” The disparity in material also hammers home the point that Supergrass doesn’t quite gel, the way their first two albums did. There were no themes behind those two records, but the performances and songs shared a similar spirit. The third album is simply a collection of moments, some spectacular and some average. While that may come as a slight disappointment, since I Should Coco and In It for the Money are two of the greatest pop albums of the ’90s, the songs that work on Supergrass – and they do account for well over half the record – confirm that the ‘Grass remain one of the most gifted.

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