First band ever signed on Massive Attack's label Melankolic, which the slogan « Glad to be sad« seems to have been created for, Alpha soon fulfil the magnificent promises made in Bristol in 1995, on Andy Jenks and Corin Dingley's first encounter. In 1997, their debut album, the well-entitled Come from Heaven, manages to operate a delicate synthesis between pop classicism of the 60's and the modernity of contemporary productions. In this album, Alpha acutely alludes to the greatest songwriters and arrangers of the past (Lee Hazlewood, Scott Walker, Jimmy Webb or Burt Bacharach), without ever yielding to the facilities of sympathetic nostalgia or retro-futurism. Quickly, the list of their admirers looks like a Who's Who of the international pop scene : David Bowie, Radiohead, Pulp, or Madonna all rave about Come from Heaven, and eventually start on collaborations with the duet. After the release in 1998 of the remix album Pepper, it takes Alpha three years to return at their best. On their second album, The