LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You (2010 UK 15-track 2-LP vinyl set - The follow-up to 2008's 'Falling Off The Lavender Bridge', 'Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You' is an epic collection of twelve pop songs, two instrumental intermissions and one piano etude. Lightspeed's early leaning towards American country dressings is traded here for a palette that draws on classical music and even musical theatre. Producer and mixer Ben Allen [Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley] assembles the eclectic grab-bag of influences, joltingly 70s guitar and synth sounds, classical piano, Greek choruses shouting reprisals, and at least one ukelele-driven moment. Includes the single 'Marlene')