"Happy Daze" was the second album by the Mk II line-up of Lindisfarne and was originally released in 1974. This is the first time that the album has been issued on CD and Market Square have lovingly repackaged it and included seven Alan Hull demos as bonus tracks, six of which are previously unreleased…
More than 20 years after Stephen Duffy departed Duran Duran, he reunites here with Duran mainstay Nick Rhodes to create an album's worth of wonderful, bubbly pop songs. From its spooky robotic opener, "Memory Palaces," with its brilliant stabs of icy synth patterns, to the moody closing instrumental, Dark Circles never falters. It's as if Rhodes and Duffy were destined to create this immeasurably fun ode to their past and their separate paths…