LOWLIGHT

DUSTIN's worst efforts at pop parody couldn't hold a candle to the biggest Irish musical turkey of 1996, The Cranberries' third album, To The Faithful Departed. TDFD marks The Cranberries' regression from dream-weaving ingenues to nightmare pop pedagogues. The album seems mainly a vehicle for Dolores O'Riordan's increasingly supercilious attitudes and inexplicably bad lyrics, while the rest of the band appear to have been relegated to tedious strum'n'drum duties.