Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) focusing on subjects such as the Liverpool dockers' strike, self-loathing pop stars and general disillusionment. Preceded in release a week by the single "Life's Too Short", "Tilt" was released by Epic Records in November 1999. A unique billboard campaign was developed to promote the album. The album was a commercial failure, only reaching number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. Its two singles also fared badly in the UK Singles Chart. Broudie was later unsatisfied with the album, and took the band on hiatus in 2000. After the Lightning Seeds had been a solo project for Ian Broudie, the project
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