The Beloved – Happiness (VG+/VG+) – LP, EU 1990

Happiness is an LP by The Beloved from 1990 released on the WEA label.

About this album

Happiness is The Beloved’s bright, club-ready debut album, pairing indie-pop songwriting with polished synth-pop and dance-pop production. Released in 1990, it helped define the group’s early sound and brought their feel-good, electronic-pop approach into wider view. The album balances airy melodies, glossy electronic textures and dancefloor momentum, with songs such as Your Love Takes Me Higher and The Sun Rising showing their knack for uplifting hooks. As a crossover of pop immediacy and club culture, Happiness became the record that established The Beloved as one of the more distinctive British electronic-pop acts of the era.