Various: Lazy Sunday

By RUSSELL BAILLIE

(Herald rating: * * *)

While the likes of St Germain and Travis, or Coldplay and Moby, or Groove Armada and Gomez might sit alongside each other in many a well-appointed CD rack or glovebox, this locally compiled collection hoping to soundtrack a mood indicated by the title thinks they should be cheek-by-jowl on the same album. There's something to be said for the good taste of the 15 tracks collated, which as the aforementioned acts indicate, offer a smattering of melancholy Britpop-rock (there's also plaintive offerings of Blur's Tender and Radiohead's oldie Fake Plastic Trees) alongside a few downbeat groove stylists (Massive Attack's Exchange, Brothers in Sound's Sleep Again and our very own Relaxomatic Project's jazz-hop Every Day There's Something). But it lurches in style and mood between too many of the tracks while some of the selections will feel over-familiar to anyone who has kept an ear to the ground to the cool end of pop in recent times.

Label: EMI