Having whetted the appetite with a stunning debut album, Drugstore have now delivered the second course and what a sumptuous meal it is. From the opening track Say Hello, an infectious call out to the disaffected to the final unlisted track, Everything A Girl Should Have, this album is a feast for the senses. Isabel Monteiro writes songs that take hold of you and can in the space of a single song, Mondo Cane, pummel you into submission and then sooth the soul without missing a beat.

El President, with Thom Yorke as a perfect foil for Isabel on vocals is a dark, insistent song with a world-weary sentiment. Sober lifts the soul with its anthemic wall of sound and bittersweet lyric. I Know I Could brings the cello, which is used to great dramatic effect throughout the album, to the fore, as Isabel proclaims the hurt she could inflict. Spacegirl starts slow and lazy and gradually builds to a tidal wave crescendo that will never be bettered. Speechless already and we're still only half way there.

Never Come Down is a perfect pop song, a reminder of hot Summer days, so vivid you'll expect to find sand in your shoes. Song For Pessoa is a touching, acoustic ode to one of Isabel's favorite writers, the poet Fernando Pessoa. I Don't Wanna Be Here Without You is very different to the rest of the album seeming kind of out of place with its Human League like electronic backing. The albums title track, White Magic For Lovers, is a sublime melody, fuelled by a torrent of guitars. The Funeral finds Isabel singing of how she wants to be remembered by lovers and friends, but adding "most of all, I'd like to go with a friend." With this album Drugstore will definitely be remembered, and friends shouldn't be too hard to find either.

A rollercoaster ride for the mind and the best album of 1998 and one of the best of the 90's.