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There was always a deeper, more intense side to Moyet than her earlier career suggested. ‘I’m here,’ she sings on the opening track I Germinate and she certainly is. If this album has a sonic sister it is David Bowie’s last album Blackstar. It also has a similar sense of foreboding, with April 10th making one want to open the window and breathe to prove it can still be done. But Happy Giddy shows she can still be poptastic, too. ‘I’m as free as I’ve ever been,’ she sings on the title track. Yes, and also perhaps at a creative peak.