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The Sunshine Underground // Nobody's Coming To Save You

14/05/13

This album excels in mediocrity. Even though the sound is layered together nicely with slick instrumentation and tight rhythms that border on ‘new rave’, ‘Nobody’s Coming To Save You’ is so painfully generic that even ‘Reverend’ of The Makers would be like, “man, you guys are bland”. The best two tracks on the album are the first two. ‘Spell It Out’ has an interesting structure, but then it doesn’t really build to anything, whilst 'Coming to Save You’ is a promising opener with some haunting atmospherics, an infectiously jolty rhythm, and an undeniably catchy chorus. However, the overproduced songs quickly become very samey, and whilst they try to create something epic, it ends up sounding a tad cheesy. Everything – the dull synth, the token cowbell, the smooth bass distortion, even the off-beat guitar strums – are so predictable that this album just has no effect on me whatsoever. In fact, if I close my eyes and keep really still, then it passes over me like it never even happened. It’s not like it’s offensive or anything; I’m sure Gary boys who love The Enemy, Muse and the aforementioned Reverend will happily consume this harmless piece of lad rock, and think they’re being all “underground”. But I’m no fool; this album is b.o.r.i.n.g.

4/10 Maxie Gedge