If this were an EP I would probably rant and rave about it. As it is it’s about seven tracks too long and considering the whole record lasts just over half an hour in total, this speaks volumes about the contents.

The jittery guitars sound vaguely fresh for the first couple of tracks until you realise they are using the same rhythms and sequences again and again.

Subsequently, the further you get into the record you realise they sound just like everybody else.

I would actually have thought the lead singer was on a break from British Sea Power if he hadn’t adopted a rather obviously forced Fergal Sharkey wobble at the end of every line and if the lyrics weren’t so bad; record companies should really read the lyric sheets before they let bands reproduce them in their record sleeves.

There are glimmers of hope throughout here but nothing that lifts the monotony of the persistent recycling of ideas.

Richard Swales