The group's second album (and last for Virgin subsidiary Dindisc),
Love Zombies features more accomplished songwriting from main man Bid -- especially the title track and the playful "The Man with the Black Moustache." Fans -- BBC Radio
DJ John Peel among them -- had long since recognized
the Monochrome Set's supreme compositional agility. This is amply demonstrated by
Love Zombies, which switches from sweet pop to wry ballads to a kind of alt-rock rhumba with disarming ease. "The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Tony Potts," incidentally, is a tribute to the band's visual designer and "fifth member." And isn't "In Love, Cancer?" one of the all-time great song titles? ~ Alex Ogg