Sweetness and Light

Emma Anderson wrote "Sweetness and Light", which was also the first Lush 7-inch and cassette single. The 12-inch and CD run 5:16 (the fan archive says 5:19) and the 7-inch edit 4:12. Tim Friese-Greene produced it in August 1990, and Berenyi said that for the song's break, with its odd number of bars, she had to nod Acland in. The video was directed by Peter Scammell, and the 12-inch's run-out grooves are inscribed Cool, fresh, milk float and What's hiding under the sheets?

It reached 47 in the UK and 4 on the US modern rock chart. NME's Terry Staunton called the EP glorious and pure Lush, while Melody Maker called the single sorely over-produced; Paste's Clare Martin called it undoubtedly Lush's best known song and dream pop at its best, and placed it third in her ten best Lush songs. Kevin Shields remixed it as "Orange Squash" for the 1999 film Splendor, it was released as Rock Band downloadable content in July 2009, and it was remastered on Ciao! in 2001.

Setlist.fm lists it in 176 setlists, the second most played Lush song after "De-Luxe" (184); it closed the main set at the Roundhouse on May 7, 2016. A UK tour of thirteen dates ran from October 21, 1990 at the Zap Club in Brighton to November 5 at the Town and Country Club in London. Our upload is titled with the Gala compilation, which includes the EP's three songs.