release of second album ‘Recurrence’

1988 saw the release of their second album, Recurrence , on Virgin Records , and support tours with R.E.M. in Europe (Work Tour) and The Sugarcubes in the US . A national chart hit eluded them with singles “In the Meantime”, “Somewhere South” and “Over and Over”. The US-only promo “A Pleasure” was a commercial/college rock hit. In 1990, they released Native Place , an album that saw the band take a more pop oriented direction, with keyboard textures coming more to the fore than previously. ” Every Beat of the Heart ” became a top 40 hit in the UK with a peak at No. 24, and the song became a No. 1 hit on the newly founded Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U.S.