Returned with single ‘Pumping on Your Stereo’

The band again took a short break before returning in 1999 with the single ” Pumping on Your Stereo “. The promo video, produced in conjunction with the Jim Henson’s Creature Shop , featured the band with comical ” muppet ” bodies. The single generated welcome publicity following their time out of the limelight, as did a small sold-out tour scheduled around the single release, the final night of which was at Shepherd’s Bush Empire as part of MTV ‘s “Five Night Stand” festival. The single and the tour were followed by their third LP Supergrass (1999). The following spring the record was released in the US Once more, the album was recorded at Sawmills Studio with longtime associate Cornfield producing. Supergrass was well received critically and commercially and it has since gone platinum in the UK, but did not reap the same level of success as its predecessors. Critics claimed the album was “hit and miss”, which showed up particularly as the “also-rans are surrounded by songs that are as great as anything Supergrass has ever recorded”. Their next single, ” Moving “, proved popular and reached the Top Ten in the UK. And their third single, ” Mary ” entered the Top 40 . There followed a long hiatus.