International Velvet was Catatonia's second album, and it was also the one that pulled them out of obscurity in the UK.
With the help of the hugely successful singles Mulder and Scully and Road Rage, International Velvet soon hit Number 1.
This was undoubtably their most commercially successful release, and as artoodeetoo has demonstrated above, many fans consider this to be their best work. Unfortunately, it also got the band stuck with a pop reputation, and it never went away...