MANSUN

attack of the grey lantern (1997) chester’s mansun were the missing link between syd barrett and Pulp, a pop band with maverick ambition. their debut album was actually only half a concept album – mainman Paul draper had started writing

a story based around a fake superhero called the grey lantern before getting bored and abandoning the idea. but we’ll still take half an album of gloriously batty, brilliantly pretentious prog-pop any day of the week.