Essex-based dance group, best known for the US Top 40 hit "Love U More".
Tropes associated with Sunscreem
- Bowdlerise: Their
Signature Song "Love U More" has been covered several times, but covers rarely use any more than the first verse and chorus because it gets much darker after that. - Cover Version: "Broken English" (Marianne Faithfull), "Walk Under Ladders" (Joan Armatrading).
- Fading into the Next Song: O3, Change Or Die, New Dark Times and Ten Mile Bank all do this a lot.
- Looped Lyrics: "Your Hands" (the title), "Kali" ("Will I walk through the door?"), "Coming Up" ("Coming up, I'm coming up"), even their cover of Joan Armatrading's "I'm Lucky" (which dispenses with the verses, reducing it to repetitions of "I'm lucky, I can walk under ladders").
- Lyrical Dissonance: In spades. "Love U More" is about hating an ex-lover so much that the death of all humanity and the detruction of planet Earth would be preferable to reuniting with them - but it's such an upbeat song, many listeners never even realise that's what it's about.
- Non-Appearing Title: "Idaho". A particularly puzzling title since it's about an event in California.
- Sanity Slippage Song: Practically the complete opposite to "Love U More", "Looking At You" is about a woman slowly losing her mind through obssessing over a former lover.
- Shadow Archetype: Possibly the meaning of "Please Save Me". The main line is about how there's a monster in the forest "and it looks so very much like me", suggesting the "monster" is a metaphor for the bad parts of the protagonist, or even that it's a literal monster representing her dark side.
- Shout-Out: "Idaho" is about Marilyn Monroe, and specifically the media circus surrounding her death.
- Step Up to the Microphone: Although Lucia Holm is the main singer, Paul Carnell gets a few moments in the spotlight, notably "For Maddened Prophets" and "Secrets".
- Title Drop: In "Chasing Dreams"... "Can't you hear the sun scream?"
