Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) successful. "Tilt" only managed to reach number 46 in the UK Albums Chart, a commercial failure after their previous release, "Like You Do...Best of Lightning Seeds" (1997) had reached number 5. According to Justin Lewis in "The Rough Guide to Rock", "Tilt" was "lost in the rush of big sellers" prior to Christmas 1999 and noted that "even Broudie's collaborations with [Pickering and Hall] failed to reel in the punters." The two singles did not fare successfully either, with "Life's Too Short" only reaching 27 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Sweetest Soul Sensations" only reaching number 67, becoming their
Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) real reach for them," referring to it as "a less-dated version" of the band's debut album "Cloudcuckooland" (1990). "Tilt" was also said to show occasionally show the band sounding like "a warmer version of the Pet Shop Boys." Music journalist Colin Larkin said the closest point on the reference on "Tilt" is "arguably" New Order. "Pop Rescue" said that the dance sounds that "emerged in full" on "Tilt" had first emerged to a lesser extent on the band's third album "Jollification" (1994). Broudie's lyrics on the album were noted for being less optimistic than they had been before, and according