Split

Split was recorded in October to December 1993 at Rockfield in Wales, Berry House in Sussex and Abbey Road, and first mixed at Mike Hedges's house in France. Phil King found that mix flat, in his words it sounded as flat as a pancake, so Alan Moulder remixed all of it. Martin McCarrick played strings on two tracks and Audrey Riley on two others, and Vaughan Oliver and Chris Bigg did the artwork. Anderson later called it a good album but too long, and the first Lush record with strings.

It reached 19 in the UK, 2 on the UK Indie chart and 195 on the Billboard 200. AllMusic's Andy Kellman wrote a fantastic record within any realm and gave it 4.5 stars; Pitchfork's Jeremy D. Larson called it the essential sound of Lush in its 2018 dream pop list, placing it 27th; Uncut gave 9 out of 10, Q and Rolling Stone four stars, NME 6 out of 10 and Select 2 out of 5.