My Life Story - Joined Up Talking (25th Anniversary Edition)

A nostalgic glance back, delivered with fresh perspective. 

Brimming with wit, ambition and unmistakable My Life Story flair, the brit-pop band’s third album features the singles, It’s a Girl Thing, Empire Line and Walk/Don’t Walk, plus the groundbreaking world’s first downloadable single, If You Can’t Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?.

Self-produced with programming wiz, Pete Gleadall, at Parkgate Studios in 1999, the album has the feel of a millennium time capsule. References to Monica Lewinsky, Tamagotchis, Pret A Manger, the dot-com boom, and even megabytes of storage reflect the everyday vocabulary of the turn of the century with Shillingford’s typically irreverent style.

Across album tracks like “The New New Yorker”, Shillingford stitches together topical newspaper headlines into surreal narratives, while “I Don’t Believe in Love” — originally written when Shillingford was 17 — reveals the band’s roots in classic songwriting traditions.