After a first album that got The Enemy a lot of success in the UK, these lads are now back with a new album that’s really not that good. Whereas their debut album was a nice collection of songs inspired by The Jam and The Who, everything on their new album had to simply sound bigger. And as they aptly prove, that’s not necessarily a good thing. At all. You’ll know it right from the start when the intro to “Elephant Song” bursts out of the speakers. It’s as if they found the ‘epic’ button on the mixing panel when they first entered the studio and forgot to ever turn it off.
Sometimes this works but in The Enemy’s case the songs don’t really seem to go anywhere. They just keep building up tension to the point where you expect a kickass finale to come in, swoop the prom queen off her feet and give her a good fuck… except that that never happens.
Typical example of a UK band who drop a solid debut, get hyped by the likes of NME, start believing in their own hype and then deliver a sad excuse for a second album.
Score: 4 out of 10
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