Leave it to Captured Tracks to bring us a reunited Medicine, eighteen years after the original band dissolved! To The Happy Few finds the band’s core members, lead singer Beth Thompson, guitarist/vocalist Brad Laner, and drummer Jim Goodall back together and crafting their volatile, richly textured brand of shoegaze on this new, longly awaited LP. “It’s Not Enough” demonstrates the way this band can use juxtapositions of sonic texture at the push of a button, always keeping the listener on their toes, while still creating dreamy, engaging pop. Captured Tracks has also reissued Medicine’s 1992 LP Shot Forth Self Living as well as 1993’s The Buried Life, and, of course, you can always see the band in the movie The Crow! Here’s Medicine’s microbial video for “It’s Not Enough”, directed by Josh Laner…
