The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own - Sequel

Having inhabited the lower echelons of indie-rock history in the Noughties, the Berkshire quintet takes a third stab at success with Make This Your Own. Some of the intensity found on 2003 s Kick Up The Fire has been siphoned off and replaced with a poppi

Having inhabited the lower echelons of indie-rock history in the Noughties, the Berkshire quintet takes a third stab at success with Make This Your Own.

Some of the intensity found on 2003's Kick Up The Fire has been siphoned off and replaced with a poppier guitar sensibility, but regrettably during the service they overlooked the patchy album syndrome which has so far left them flagging in the fame stakes.

This album veers like a joyrider in a Fiesta; from the competent chart-fodder of Waiting Game, through the bushes with the inadvisably electro-sprinkled Head, and smacking into a ditch with the grimace-inducing All I See Is You.

Why?

2/5