This one I remember coming out when I was at Borders. Pete Basham had the unenviable task of working out whether Kate could still cut it. I don't think it was ever in doubt, to be honest. And yet... when King of the Mountain emerged, you could hear it as a beginning, a fanfare for what was about to come next. Instead, listening back to it, perhaps it was actually as pop as it got. Weird and wonderful songs about pi bring to mind Robert Montgomery's poetry which is always nice, but does rather suggest that perhaps Kate has somewhat run out of big ideas to focus on.

And then we're back into "one long track" territory, a format with which, lest we forget, KB has form. In the remaster it's split into separate tracks which is cheating to some extent, but I'll let her off.

Perhaps, like XTC, we are now in the territory of having no worlds left to conquer, and everything that remains is for personal pleasure, an insular, hermetic adventure. I can relate.