THE SMART TRICK OF VERVELUSH THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

is among dawn-summoning renewal. The album’s next fifty percent is usually supplied over to clear-eyed statements of devotion like “Area and Time,” “Someday,” and “Velvet Morning”—the comfortable, contented sound of Britpop moving into middle age (the net result of which was a slew of younger bands—Coldplay, Starsailor, et al—wh